<p><b>From the author of <i>Ice Diaries<\/i>, winner of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize, praised by the <i>New York Times<\/i> as \u201cstunningly written,\u201d and a <i>Guardian<\/i> Best Book of 2018<\/b><\/p>
\n<p><b>Set in the throes of Brexit-era London, <i>Day for Night<\/i> is an unflinching exploration of desire, gender, and history, in which a married filmmaking duo seeks to tell the tragic story of 1940s German Jewish intellectual Walter Benjamin, while their own relationship and nation are imploding behind the camera in real-time<\/b><\/p>
\n<p>Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife, Joanna, is his increasingly successful and wealthy producer. Together they are about to embark on a film about the life of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish intellectual who killed himself in northern Spain while on the run from the Nazis in 1940. In what looks set to be the last year of Britain\u2019s membership of the European Union, Benjamin\u2019s story of exile and statelessness is more relevant than ever. But Richard and Joanna\u2019s symbiotic life takes a sudden turn when they cast an intelligent, sexually ambiguous young actor in the role of Walter Benjamin. In a climate of fear and a bizarre, superheated year redolent of sex and hidden desire, Richard and Joanna must confront their relationship, Benjamin\u2019s tragic history, and the future of their country.<\/p>
\n<p>Taking its cue from Virginia Woolf\u2019s <i>Orlando<\/i>, <i>Day for Night<\/i> is an unsettling, riveting story of reversals \u2014 of gender, power, and history.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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