{"product_id":"the-older-night-j-s-kross-9798189640032","title":"The Older Night","description":"or twenty years, Ilmari has been paid to watch strangers sleep - six screens, six wired bodies, a manual with a name for every way of spending a night. He also has a secret that would interest his employer: he sleeps twice a night, and always has. Down with the early dark, awake at three, one quiet hour of coffee and unsent letters, then down again until morning. In his profession this is not a habit. It is a finding. And findings come with paperwork.\u003cbr\u003eThen the clinic is bought by Unira, a sleep-tech company that sells titanium rings, sleep scores, and the belief that the night is \"the last unoptimized frontier of human performance.\" When an 84-year-old lighthouse keeper arrives - denounced by a ring his daughter gave him for Christmas, his two-watch sleep intact after sixty years, refusing to be cured - Ilmari must decide what he is: a technician of the corrected night, or the last man on watch.\u003cbr\u003eSet across one Helsinki winter, from the solstice to the equinox, The Older Night is a dry, tender, quietly furious novel about the hour the light bulb abolished, the industry that bills us for our inheritance, and the difference - older than the lamp - between being watched over and being recorded.\u003cbr\u003eThey have not failed. They have been graded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. S. Kross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798189640032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"J. S. Kross","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666024304895,"sku":"9798189640032","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb3e0671-4424-49e7-8186-2b88c9d8f140.jpg?v=1792015183","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-older-night-j-s-kross-9798189640032","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}