On the night of August 31 to September 1, 2008, eleven people take their own lives in a small town in eastern Greenland. Like an epidemic, suicide spreads through all social classes and age groups of the community, whose residents seem to have become "infected by a touch or a glance." Superficially, these suicides appear unrelated; only a few of the deceased knew each other casually. Yet the outside observer wonders: "Is it not a fallacy to believe that the life of an individual holds significance only in isolation? Just as the death of one person makes no sense when separated from the lives of others." The novel "Anatomy of a Night" recounts the final hours of eleven individuals and tells the story of Greenland, a land of extremes, shrouded in cold, loneliness, and comforting magic.