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Etna by Paul Yoon

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The best-reviewed book of the summer by The New York Times, Time, NPR, and more, Etna is a “devastating and gorgeous” (The New York Times Book Review), “hypnotic” (Time) literary novel that follows an ex-military dog who leaves the soldiers he once served and sets out on an odyssey across a war-torn country in search of home, hope, and a life beyond conflict—this is a novel about the power of an idea, about never giving up, and ultimately an “epic journey of hope” (Booklist, starred review) that finds light in the most dire of times.

"No dog lover should miss this." —People

"Don't let the book's length mislead you…Etna's odyssey deserves the epithet 'epic.'" —NPR, Best of August

Set 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 for years 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, even in peacetime, proves to be just as precarious. Along the way, he encounters other animals and humans who are attempting to figure out how to start 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 profound loss?

This is a novel about the power of an idea, about never giving up, and ultimately a novel about finding hope in the most dire of times.

The best-reviewed book of the summer by The New York Times, Time, NPR, and more, Etna is a “devastating and gorgeous” (The New York Times Book Review), “hypnotic” (Time) literary novel that follows an ex-military dog who leaves the soldiers he once served and sets out on an odyssey across a war-torn country in search of home, hope, and a life beyond conflict—this is a novel about the power of an idea, about never giving up, and ultimately an “epic journey of hope” (Booklist, starred review) that finds light in the most dire of times.

"No dog lover should miss this." —People

"Don't let the book's length mislead you…Etna's odyssey deserves the epithet 'epic.'" —NPR, Best of August

Set 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 for years 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, even in peacetime, proves to be just as precarious. Along the way, he encounters other animals and humans who are attempting to figure out how to start 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 profound loss?

This is a novel about the power of an idea, about never giving up, and ultimately a novel about finding hope in the most dire of times.

  • Publisher: Scribner

    Title: Etna

    Author: Paul Yoon

    On Sale Date: August 4, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9781668020821

    ISBN 10: 1668020823

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $28.00

    BISAC: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Magical Realism

    Page Count: 208 pages

  • Paul Yoon is the author of six works of fiction, including Once the Shore (a New York Times Notable Book), Snow Hunters (winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award), The Mountain (an NPR Best Book of the Year), Run Me to Earth (longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal), and The Hive and the Honey (winner of The Story Prize).

  • Critics are calling it devastating, epic, and gorgeous:

    • “Devastating and gorgeous.” — The New York Times Book Review

    • “Epic journey of hope.” — Booklist (starred review)

    • “Don’t let the book’s length mislead you…Etna’s odyssey deserves the epithet ‘epic.’” — NPR, Best of August

    • “A gorgeous reminder of our ability to look searingly at who we are.” — Frank Bruni, The New York Times

This book is for you if

  • You want a war novel told from the point of view of the dog who survives it.

  • You loved the spare, devastating prose of Run Me to Earth or Snow Hunters.

  • You're drawn to odyssey stories about what "home" means once nothing is unchanged.

  • You want a short novel that earns the word epic.

  • You appreciate fiction that finds tenderness in the wreckage of war.

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