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THE DIVER'S CLOTHES LIE EMPTY
By: Vendela Vida
Ecco
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
224 pages
ISBN: 0062110918
EAN: 9780062110916
Kindle: B00O10LJA0
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Literature and Fiction
From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers comes a taut, spellbinding literary thriller that probes the essence and malleability of identity. In Vendela Vidaβs taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passportβall of her money and identification. Though the police investigate, the woman senses an undercurrent of complicity between the hotel staff and the authoritiesβshe knows sheβll never recover her possessions. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses. A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a stand-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, and soon sheβs inhabiting the actressβs skin off set, tooβgoing deeper into the Casablancan night and further from herself. And so continues a strange and breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further and further away from the person she once was. Told with vibrant, lush detail and a wicked sense of humor, The Diverβs Clothes Lie Empty is part literary mystery, part psychological thrillerβan unforgettable novel that explores free will, power, and a womanβs right to choose not her past, perhaps not her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela Vidaβs most assured and ambitious novel yet.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - June 30, 2015
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