This Side of Brightness: A Novel

International Bestseller
Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

“Luminescent. Colum McCann has taken the monumental force of the past and created from it a novel of wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent with dignity.” —The Boston Globe

From the author of Let the Great World Spin, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.

In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and t...