{"product_id":"the-radiance-8631","title":"The Radiance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost Anticipated Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e- Best Books of September by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand NPR - Best Books of Fall by \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e- A Must-Read of September by \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Simply put, a work of genius.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--Abraham Verghese, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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--\"bordering at times on the ineffable\" (Mary Gaitskill, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBehavior\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can't tell from madness. In its grip, he's drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is of our American moment and beyond it--asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAyad Akhtar\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAmerican Dervish\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eHomeland Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also authored the plays \u003ci\u003eMcNeal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJunk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisgraced\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Who \u0026amp; The What\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Hand.\u003c\/i\u003e Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ayad Akhtar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67623838941469,"sku":"9781668078631","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781668078631.jpg?v=1790794730","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/the-radiance-8631","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}