ETNA

A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026An unforgettable novel of a working dog Etna who after a devastating war embarks on an odyssey in the hopes of returning home Gorgeous a sublimely quiet depiction of loneliness and disorientation Hernan Diaz Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust and In the DistanceSet in a fictional country in the present day this is a story told through the eyes of an ex military dog Etna After surviving years of a devastating war Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside and return home to the place where he was taken from when he was young in the thin but persistent hope that if a home exists for him it might be there Thus begins an exhilarating odyssey told through the eyes of a dog as he traverses across ruined landscapes and fights to survive in a world that proves even in peacetime to be just as precarious as in war Along the way he encounters other animals and humans who are trying to resume their lives again What makes a life when there is no home to go back to How do we begin to trust each other again after such devastation This is a novel about the power of an idea about never giving up and ultimately about finding hope in the most dire of times In this masterful and infinitely