An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. ‘The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother’s deck of cards, was made out of stories, and it was always on the verge of collapse.’ The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and versatility of the novel’ Observer ‘Entirely sure footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. ‘Probably Chabon’s greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017’ The Times A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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