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The Radiance: A Novel

by Ayad Akhtar

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Hardcover · 304 pages S&S/Summit Books · 2026

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The Radiance

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Time · Best Books of September by The New York Times and NPR · Best Books of Fall by The Boston Globe · A Must-Read of September by Vulture

“Alive...vivid...heartfelt.” —AO Scott, The New York Times
“A towering accomplishment.” —Theo Baker, New York Times bestselling author of How to Rule the World

A 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 Bad Behavior).

When 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.

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.

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Publisher
S&S/Summit Books
Author
Ayad Akhtar
Format
Hardcover
Published
Sep 29, 2026
ISBN-13
9781668078631
ISBN-10
1668078635
Pages
304
Carton quantity
20 copies
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