num_pages: 288
description: For twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, a traveler, recently diagnosed with an incurable illness, writes a letter home to a friend. He describes the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made across northern Italy from Switzerland, while reflecting on questions of mortality, seduction, and the search for paradise. Against a rich background of earlier journeys in literature, notably Mann's Death in Venice , Robert Dessaix creates a compelling and ultimately uplifting account of a life enriched by a heightened sense of mortality.
language: English
title: Night Letters
titlecomplete: Night Letters
genres: Fiction, Italy, Queer, Australia, Literature, Classics, Novels, Travel, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 394
places: Venice, Italy
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: ALS Gold Medal
publisher: Picador