{"product_id":"the-radiance","title":"The Radiance","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"I cannot remember the last time a book made me feel and think so much. The Radiance is as thrilling as it is illuminating. It quickened my pulse, activated my senses, awakened my mind and stirred my soul. A wondrous, transcendent reading experience.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eInterior Chinatown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastic surprise, a novel made of oppositions: almost painfully intimate, culturally wide-angled, vulnerable, shrewd, compassionate and ruthless, tragic and well, radiant. Bordering at times on the ineffable, it is a unique and extraordinary reading experience.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Mary Gaitskill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Treasure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is, simply put, a work of genius. Through unforgettable characters Akhtar explores the nature of memory and of the soul, while the unfolding tale builds tension and anticipation like a whodunit. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is hard to put down and so original it will linger with me for a long time.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Abraham Verghese, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Electric and unforgettable: Only Akhtar could navigate territory this fraught--power, obsession, violation, and desire--and emerge with a book this urgent and alive.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --Tara Westover, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times bestselling author of Educated\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A campus novel like no other, profound and beautiful, whose narrator weathers today's chaos while circling the ultimate questions--and somehow fun as hell to read. This brilliant book left me awestruck.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eRedeployment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAyad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Akhtar is the author of the novels \n\u003ci\u003eAmerican Dervish\u003c\/i\u003e, a \n\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, and \n\u003ci\u003eHomeland Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by \n\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also authored the plays \n\u003ci\u003eMcNeal\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eJunk\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eDisgraced\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Who \u0026amp; The What\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Hand.\u003c\/i\u003e Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN 2026 \u003c\/b\u003e- \n\u003cb\u003e A \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Simply put, a work of genius.\" --Abraham Verghese, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar's most daring work yet--a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\"bordering at times on the ineffable\" (Mary Gaitskill).\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident--both the violence and its aftermath. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is of our American moment and beyond it--asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eAkhtar, Ayad\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAyad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Akhtar is the author of the novels \n\u003ci\u003eAmerican Dervish\u003c\/i\u003e, a \n\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, and \n\u003ci\u003eHomeland Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by \n\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. 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