The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar - ISBN: 9781398567948
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Spiritual awakening, scandal, and the enduring radiance within us all.
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The Radiance

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    336 pages

  • Release Date

    29 September 2026

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Summary

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’.

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398567948
ISBN-10:1398567949
Author:Ayad Akhtar
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:29 September 2026
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
About The Author

Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright whose 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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