The Radiance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781668078631)

A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and 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.

When 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.

Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it -- asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.

Author: Ayad Akhtar
ISBN-10: 1668078635
ISBN-13: 9781668078631
Publisher: S&s/Summit Books
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2026
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d