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THE GREAT BELIEVERS - REBECCA MAKKAI KARTONIERT...

'Focused on a group of friends  lovers  and family outcasts  the book highlights the way tragic
illness shifts the courses of people's lives - and how its touch forever lingers on those left
behind' Harper's Bazaar Set in Chicago in 1984 and Paris in 2015  The Great Believers is a
story of how love can both rescue and destroy us  a thrilling  addictive novel full of
characters whom the reader comes to know as friends  colleagues and lovers. '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. 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 '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 . . . I loved this book' Garth Greenwell author of What Belongs to You

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