Things in the Night explores a world on the edge of disaster - plagued by mysterious power-outages and threatened by ominous conspiracies - juxtaposing the grim and comic with images of
unsurpassed beauty and tenderness. Beginning with the simple but moving words, "My Dear, I feel I owe you an explanation," and ending with the sadness and resignation of, "Those were beautiful
years, beautiful autumn days," this novel, set in Estonia near the end of the millennium, is a hymn to the very best in the human imagination and a eulogy for what humans, at their worst, may
destroy.
