num_pages: 400
description: As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like millions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself in the Vietnam War. A stunning fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, The Book of Daniel is an intensely moving tale of political martyrdom and the search for meaning.
language: English
title: The Book of Daniel
titlecomplete: The Book of Daniel
characters: Daniel and Susan Isaacson
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 5524
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Classics