Lucca

In a provincial hospital, Robert operates on a woman admitted after a horrifying car crash. She had driven off drunk and overwrought, her husband says, after a marital disagreement. Later, Robert must tell her she may never regain her sight.

Divorced, solitary by preference, Robert is drawn to sit with Lucca through her long nights of coming to terms. As their stories emerge, they discover the accidents of intimacy that have brought them both to the present—and Robert begins to realise that perhaps his life must change as drastically as Lucca's.

Jens Christian Grøndahl reveals, in seductive and irresistible prose, how we invent ourselves in our relationships with others. Lucca is another superb novel from the author of the acclaimed Silence in October.

Praise for Lucca:

'One of the most intense and convincing books I have come across.'

Dagbladet

'Grondahl's prose is electrically charged… A winner all the way'

The Times

Grondahl's sculpted, sinuous prose works unobtrusively, building up to the occasional glorious epiphany.'

Age

'Whether it's the reflection of light on the ocean, the scent of nutmeg and butter during the preparation of a meal, or the echoed notions of fate in a faded family photograph, the banal and the mundane becomes charged with a visual beauty and poignancy that is overwhelming.'

West Australian