The release date for the English version of 'The Great Believers' by
Rebecca Makkai is Jun 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A stunning new book about friendship and salvation amid sorrow and loss, set in modern Paris and Chicago in the 1980s
Development director Yale Tishman of a Chicago-based art gallery is set to carry off a stunning ruse in 1985 when he receives an unusual gift of paintings from the 1920s. However, as his career takes off, the AIDS epidemic's devastation spreads all around him. His pals start passing out one by one, and the virus keeps coming back to Yale after his buddy Nico's burial. Nico's younger sister Fiona will soon be the only person remaining in his life.
Thirty years later, Fiona is searching for her daughter, who vanished into a cult, in Paris. Reunited with an old friend, a well-known photographer who captured the Chicago crisis, she is at last able to confront the terrible effects of AIDS on her life and her connection with her daughter. Both Yale and Fiona fight to find decency in the face of tragedy as the two interwoven storylines transport us to the tumult of the present world and the sadness of the 1980s.
As one of the New York Times Best 10 Books of the Year, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Buzzfeed Book of the Year, a Skimm Reads pick, and one of the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year, The Great Believers has grown into a widely acclaimed and unforgettable work of literature.