Radiant Days
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard
Published: February 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781593761318
Subjects: American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary; General; Adventure fiction; Europe, Eastern; Psychological fiction
First sentence: MARSH ASKED ME to join him on the veranda for a cigarette.
Description: During the last days of the Balkan War in the summer of 1995, Anthony, a hapless American questioning the dot-com values that allow him to live a pampered existence in San Francisco, agrees to join Gisela, a beauty he barely knows, in a search for her son, lost in a Hungarian orphanage. In Budapest they meet Marsh, a brilliant but frustrated British war correspondent. Anthony thinks he has found in Eastern Europe what his former life was missing: enterprising young people openly questioning U.S. values, determined to remake their own world. But when an odd and edgy love triangle emerges and he discovers his mission with Gisela is much darker than he imagined, Anthony is thrown further in flux. Moving from the tattered romanticism of Budapest, through the sparkling Dalmatian coast, and into the brutalized landscape of inland Croatia, the novel takes a shocking turn of irreversible consequence.