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Publisher's Summary
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A New York Times TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER
THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler
“A page turner.... An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis.” (The New York Times Book Review)
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed author Rebecca Makkai.
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, The Seattle Times, Bustle, Newsday, AM New York, BookPage, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lit Hub, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, and Chicago Public Library.
What the critics say
“Makkai knits themes of loss, betrayal, friendship and survival into a powerful story of people struggling to keep their humanity in dire circumstances.” (People Magazine)
“Cultural revolutions of the past painfully reverberate in Rebecca Makkai’s deft third novel, The Great Believers, which captures both the devastation of the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago and the emotional aftershocks of those losses.” (Vogue)
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- Marge Simpson
- 2023-08-13
Heartbreaking and beautiful
Wonderfully read. Best book I’ve read/listened to all year. Will have to revisit, very moving.
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- Julio Cesar Panama
- 2023-07-20
Great albeit sad book
Touching story, great performance, loved this book and it’s story. Yale (sorry for misspelling) was one of those characters that gets under your skin in a good way, making you miss him when you’re finished reading.
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- Jackie
- 2020-05-21
devastating and gorgeous
i cried four times while listening to this. brilliantly and painstakingly immortalizes a story of grief and loss and life and love. truly left me speechless. this book is so, so important. makkai is an incredible author! so worth it!!
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- Alysha
- 2020-04-30
A haunting story
I found it to be a haunting story of a time I know of but was too young to experience. Listening to the latter half during COVID-19 was surreal.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-10-10
Poignant, Nostalgic, Timeless
Written with such skill and sensitivity. Makkai deftly threads her way through 20th Century history to create a through line from the world wars to the AIDs crisis.
The characters transcend tropes to tell stories of those who survive under unimaginable circumstances.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-12-19
The most beautiful book I’ve read to date
This is a story about life—how, still, after terror and trauma, love prevails. Like a tree-leaf in autumn refusing to fall.
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- Vizslalover
- 2020-09-23
Broke my heart
I was there. I lived in Chicago with my brother and our friends through this crisis, one friend after another getting sick and then leaving us, until there was one. The author takes you right there...then back to the present in a beautiful and seamless weaving of a story that needed to be told. Thank you Rebecca. Xo. Fiona.
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