Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction | 2015 | Winner |
About This Book
In a near-future Russia, a vast project of space mirrors reflects sunlight onto a lake region, enabling continuous agriculture but abolishing night. Two brothers—Dima, who dives beneath the lake's surface, and Yarik, who works on the mirror project—find their childhood bond strained to breaking by ideology and the transformation of their world. A lyrical, allegorical novel. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction.
About the Author
Josh Weil is an American author of fiction and a professor of creative writing. Born in Virginia in the 1970s, he received his BA from Dartmouth College and his MFA from Columbia University. He is the author of the novella trilogy The New Valley (2009), which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Virginia Literary Award. Read more →
