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Amazon.com Review The Illumination . No longer able hide their own pains from the world, and suddenly exposed to the discomfiting wounds of strangers, friends, and lovers, these characters struggle to adapt to a new way of experiencing life and, in very different ways, to understand the intrinsic connection between love and pain. "There was an ache inside people that seemed so wonderful sometimes," one character muses. And then, because this ache is also corporeal, "He wished he had brought his camera with him." While Brockmeier's brilliant novel is innately tied up in pain and loss, witnessing the lives he creates in the midst of this new wonder is not only a beautiful experience but, yes, an illuminating one. --_Lynette Mong_ From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In Brockmeier's spectacular latest (after The View from the Seventh Layer), pain manifests itself as visible light after a mysterious event called "the Illumination," revealing humanity to be mortally wounded, and yet Brockmeier finds in these overlapping, storylike narratives, beauty amid the suffering. Jason Williford, a photojournalist, loses his wife in a traffic accident and fixates on a troubled teenage girl wh

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Author

Brockmeier, Kevin

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307379580

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

3.38 / 5 (2,902 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14