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The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
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 Vida’s 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 passport—all of
her money and identification. Though the police investigate,
the woman senses an undercurrent of complicity between the
hotel staff and the authorities—she knows she’ll 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 she’s inhabiting the actress’s skin off
set, too—going 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 Diver’s Clothes Lie
Empty is part literary mystery, part psychological
thriller—an unforgettable novel that explores free will,
power, and a woman’s right to choose not her past, perhaps
not her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela
Vida’s most assured and ambitious novel yet.
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