I loved this book * Garth Greenwell author of What Belongs to You * Makkai shows us characters who are devastated but not defeated, who remain devoted, in the face of death, to friendship and desire and joyful, irrepressible life. This expansive, huge-hearted novel conveys the scale of the trauma that was the early AIDS crisis, and conveys, too, the scale of the anger and love that rose up to meet it. And just as her novel evokes art's power to commemorate the departed, The Great Believers is itself a poignant work of memoir * Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sympathizer * Makkai has created a moving story about Chicago and Paris, the past and present, the young men lost to AIDS and the ones who survived. a deeply affecting novel that is full of death, yet simultaneously spirited and hopeful about love and life * Observer * Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780708899120 Number of pages: 528 Weight: 400 g Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 40 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.

While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. 'Stirring, spellbinding and full of life' Tea Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA GITTINGS LITERATURE AWARD

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