Angel Down
by Daniel Kraus · 2025
Literary Fiction · ranked #227 in category
Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2026
During the First World War, soldiers in No Man's Land discover a fallen angel among the dead. Kraus's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — written entirely as a single unbroken sentence — blends war narrative, allegory, magical realism and science fiction into one continuous breath, an extraordinary formal experiment applied to the horror of trench warfare.
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- Literary Fiction
- First published
- 2025 · 2020s
- Author
- Daniel Kraus
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- Essential Read
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