Light / Waking / Nelly's Version

Eva Figes' novels shimmer with a gemlike visual beauty, the dazzling surfaces of her writing radiating from a rich, sensual interior landscape. This exclusive Quality Paperback Book Club edition brings together three of her most admired works.

With a hypnotic, hallucinatory feel, "Nelly's Version" is a penetrating thriller of identity, in which a woman who has lost her memory tries to piece together the fragments of her past. In "Waking", the movement of a woman's life is revealed through seven mornings of impressions. And "Light", a glimpse of one day in the life of Claude Monet, captures the huances of thought and feeling -- amid the changing light at Giverny -- shared by the artist's circle of friends and family. Eva Figes' meditative, resonant, and stylistically brilliant writing "glows with the beauty, the miracle of being alive," says The Washington Post.