The radiance
(2026)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW FICTION/AKHTAR,A
SR CENTER/FICTION/AKHTAR,A

5 Holds on 3 Copies

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Fiction NEW FICTION/AKHTAR,A Due: 11/19/2026
New & Popular Fiction NEW FICTION/AKHTAR,A Due: 11/4/2026
Senior Center Fiction SR CENTER/FICTION/AKHTAR,A Due: 11/23/2026

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Summit Books, 2026
EDITION
First Summit Books hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

286 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781668078631, 1668078635, 9781668078631, 1668078635
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Accidental light -- Investigations in autofiction. In the meantime -- r/Valeoftears -- A rich stone forest

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

More from Novelist