Bøker av Mati Unt

In 1990, the same year as Things in the Night, Unt published a second novel, Diary of a Blood Donor, which displays the usual Untian mixture of fact and fiction, and takes one of the most sacred names in Estonian literature in vain. Lydia Koidula (1843-1886) is widely regarded as the first Estonian woman poet of significance, and also as the first poet to express an Estonian longing for independence. Here, Unt rather blasphemously weaves this national icon and her Latvian doctor husband into a postmodern tale of vampires and a mysterious trip to Leningrad.

"One of the most influential modernist, and latterly postmodernist, authors in Estonia." Context

Set in Estonia near the end of the millennium, this eulogy is a moving and hilarious hybrid work concerning the author's attempts to write a book on electricity in all its forms. This novel explores a world on the edge of disaster - plagued by power-outages and threatened by conspiracies - juxtaposed against images and stories of tenderness.