A Day and a Night and a Day - (P.S.) by Glen Duncan (Paperback)

About the Book

"A stunning new novel....A much better work than John Updike's post-9/11 foray, Terrorist."..I defy most readers to put it down."--Cleveland Plain Dealer" An extraordinary new work of fiction that the New York Times Book Review" calls, "Bracing and original," A Day and a Night and a Day "by Glen Duncan is a powerful book for our times. The critically acclaimed author of The Bloodstone Papers "returns with a literary blockbuster that examines race, class, sex, death, faith, terror, torture, and modernity with extraordinary insight and intelligence. A Day and a Night and a Day," 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.

Book Synopsis

"A stunning new novel....A much better work than John Updike's post-9/11 foray, Terrorist...I defy most readers to put it down."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer

An extraordinary new work of fiction that the New York Times Book Review calls, "Bracing and original," A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan is a powerful book for our times. The critically acclaimed author of The Bloodstone Papers returns with a literary blockbuster that examines race, class, sex, death, faith, terror, torture, and modernity with extraordinary insight and intelligence. A Day and a Night and a Day, 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.

From the Back Cover

Illegally 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.

Review Quotes

"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." - Charles Bock, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN
"[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." - Charles Bock, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN
"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." - Dalia Sofer, bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz
"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 - Dalia Sofer, bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz
"Glen Duncan's pen is surely dipped in gold, for the images he evokes in A Day and a Night and a Day 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." - Publishers Weekly Galley Talk
"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." - New York Magazine
"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." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A meticulously artful book." - New York Magazine
"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." - Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and More Than it Hurts You
"Grim, violent and paradoxically elegant." - Kirkus Reviews
"A stunning new novel...I defy most readers to put it down." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Duncan's polished, merciless, and frequently hilarious prose supplies a trove of pleasures all its own." - Publishers Weekly
"Duncan can be clairvoyant about how people live now. . . . A Day and a Night and a Day . . . leave[s] you with the sense of having been brushed by something uncanny, so close does Duncan get to saying the unsayable. Bracing and original." - New York Times Book Review
"Thrilling, a probe deep into the heart of our age . . . bracing and original." - International Herald Tribune
"Imagery is a tool of seduction for Duncan, who is one of England's best-kept literary secrets. And he wields it brilliantly . . . A Day and a Night and a Day is a triumph." - Richmond Times-Dispatch
"A gripping, entertaining read." - Orlando Sentinel
"Gripping...the darkest and most convincing account of the idiocies, insights and horrors of the "war on terror" that I've yet read." - Salon.com