{"product_id":"a-day-and-a-night-and-a-day-a-novel-isbn-9780061240003","title":"A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A stunning new novel....A much better work than John Updike’s post-9\/11 foray, \u003cem\u003eTerrorist\u003c\/em\u003e…I defy most readers to put it down.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary new work of fiction that the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e calls, “Bracing and original,” \u003cem\u003eA Day and a Night and a Day \u003c\/em\u003eby Glen Duncan is a powerful book for our times. The critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bloodstone Papers \u003c\/em\u003ereturns with a literary blockbuster that examines race, class, sex, death, faith, terror, torture, and modernity with extraordinary insight and intelligence. \u003cem\u003eA Day and a Night and a Day\u003c\/em\u003e, which salon.com calls, “Gripping…a puzzle box spring-loaded with surprises,” is a monumental feat of exceptional storytelling alive with big characters, huge themes, violence, suspense, and a heart-breaking love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIllegally arrested and without hope of reprieve, unlikely terrorist Augustus Rose finds himself at the mercy of Harper, ruthless interrogator and ambassador for the darkest forces at work in our times. In the ordeal that brings his whole life under brutal scrutiny, Augustus has but one shield: memory. His is a past filled with talismanic women, but at its center is Selina, a stunning, rebellious white aristocrat with whom he shared an epic, taboo love. Their affair, begun in 1960s Manhattan, would yield a lifetime's worth of passion, heartbreak, and wanderlust, leading Augustus from Harlem to Greenwich Village, from El Salvador to Barcelona, from Morocco to a bleak Scottish island where death seems his only companion.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Glen Duncan’s sentences twist and turn and inevitably end up in unexpected and exciting places.  His paragraphs are nothing less than accomplishments. A DAY AND A NIGHT AND A DAY claims espionage fiction away from the world of pulp and commercial writers, and delivers an astonishingly heady and warm and enthralling read.  This is the good stuff.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Bock, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Glen Duncan’s] paragraphs are nothing less than accomplishments. A DAY AND A NIGHT AND A DAY....delivers an astonishingly heady and warm and enthralling read.  This is the good stuff.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Bock, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This stunning novel contains equal doses of cruelty and beauty, rendered with language so precise that it reaches your nerves with both pain and delight. There are no lukewarm emotions in this novel, only the intensity of people perpetually on the verge—of disgust with life on the one hand, and an irrefutable desire to go on living on the other.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDalia Sofer, bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This stunning novel contains equal doses of cruelty and beauty, rendered with language so precise that it reaches your nerves with both pain and delight. There are no lukewarm emotions in this novel, only the intensity of people perpetually on the verge - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDalia Sofer, bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Glen Duncan’s pen is surely dipped in gold, for the images he evokes in \u003ci\u003eA Day and a Night and a Day\u003c\/i\u003e are unobtrusively woven amid the tapestry of disturbingly beautiful metaphors for human suffering.  He confidently and disarmingly lulls his reader into a dreamscape of impossible romances and familial loyalties, only to assault any notions of comfort and send you tumbling into an uncompromising reality of contemporary torture . . . despite the subject matter, Duncan’s contemplative use of language makes for a most rewarding read, and his stunningly vivid imaginings have created an exquisite novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Galley Talk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A meticulously artful book. . . . Duncan is a virtuoso of villains . . . He has managed to pull off a difficult trick: to splice a novel of ideas and a thriller without maiming either genre.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stunning new novel...British novelist Glen Duncan delivers a literary thriller good enough to make thinking readers abandon Tom Clancy and become curious again about Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor. . . . I defy most readers to put it down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A meticulously artful book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Glen Duncan is one of the best English-language writers working today—smart and musical, funny and serious at once. A day and a night and a day is a good estimation of how long it will take you to gulp down this wonderful novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarin Strauss, bestselling author of Chang \u0026amp; Eng and More Than it Hurts You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Grim, violent and paradoxically elegant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stunning new novel…I defy most readers to put it down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Duncan’s polished, merciless, and frequently hilarious prose supplies a trove of pleasures all its own.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Duncan can be clairvoyant about how people live now. . . . \u003ci\u003eA Day and a Night and a Day\u003c\/i\u003e . . . leave[s] you with the sense of having been brushed by something uncanny, so close does Duncan get to saying the unsayable. 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