The Radiance

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Ayad 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 American Dervish, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and Homeland Elegies, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by The New York Times. He has also authored the plays McNeal, Junk, Disgraced, The Who & The What, and The Invisible Hand. Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.

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From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar, a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture - 'bordering at times on the ineffable' (Mary Gaitskill). A writer escapes the city to live by a pond in a small rural enclave, like a latter-day Thoreau. After a near-fatal hit-and-run, something spiritual inside him awakens. Caught between revelation and madness, an uncanny pull toward a brilliant colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. The Radiance is a campus novel, a mystery, an erotic entanglement and an inquiry into what the soul contains - rendered without irony and without piety. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, it asks not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.