{"product_id":"the-radiance-ayad-akhtar-9781668120330","title":"The Radiance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN 2026 \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e A \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Simply put, a work of genius.\" --Abraham Verghese, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \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\u003cb\u003e--\"bordering at times on the ineffable\" (Mary Gaitskill).\u003c\/b\u003e \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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ayad Akhtar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 166812033X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668120330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Audio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Ayad Akhtar","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48743178305791,"sku":"9781668120330","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-radiance-ayad-akhtar-9781668120330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}