Presented by Alex at the January 2026 meeting
Angel Down
- Published 2025
- Fiction
- 304 pages
3.0
one reader
- Alex3
In brief
Rated one of the best books of 2025. 5 soldiers in WW1 encounters an angel on the battlefield. The whole book is one sentence. Violence in graphic detail. Horror, fantasy. I didn't quite get it.
From Wikipedia
Angel Down (2025) is a World War I novel, written as a single unbroken sentence, by American author Daniel Kraus. The protagonist is a draft dodger and then an army private who encounters an angel on the battlefield. It was published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in July 2025. It won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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