The Radiance

By Ayad Akhtar

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668078635
• ISBN13: 9781668078631
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: S&s/Summit Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"