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Sunrise by Téa Obreht

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife

"I've loved every book Téa Obreht has written but I might love this one the most. Please put this book into the hands of everyone you know."—Liz Moore, author of The God of the Woods

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Literary Hub, Today, Good Housekeeping, The Boston Globe

In 2024, Nina's small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost and freezing on the shore, Nina is armed with only a few old protein bars, a phone with no service, and a vague hope of rescue. It is up to her to survive in the vast wilderness. But then she stumbles upon Sunrise—a town of the Old West that is strangely well maintained, but seemingly abandoned. A place that holds the missing link to a ghost story one hundred years in the making.

In 2003, Sand Daw's golden boy Coll is putting the finishing touches on the town's annual historical reenactment. But when an upstart would-be author comes to him with questions about one of Sunrise's most beloved figures, it threatens to upend everything he thought he knew about the city—and himself.

In 1902, town founder, gunslinger, and legendary pulp hero Anton Vargas returns to Sunrise and quickly takes charge of a group searching for a missing boy. But who really is Vargas? What does he know about the boy's disappearance? And why has he returned after such a long absence?

These three strangers are separated by time and circumstance. But Sunrise's many secrets are like gunpowder: quiet, contained, until they encounter a spark. Magisterial and suspenseful, Téa Obreht's novel challenges the myths we think we know: of heroes and villains, of the people and places to which we lay claim, and, most of all, of our own lives.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife

"I've loved every book Téa Obreht has written but I might love this one the most. Please put this book into the hands of everyone you know."—Liz Moore, author of The God of the Woods

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Literary Hub, Today, Good Housekeeping, The Boston Globe

In 2024, Nina's small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost and freezing on the shore, Nina is armed with only a few old protein bars, a phone with no service, and a vague hope of rescue. It is up to her to survive in the vast wilderness. But then she stumbles upon Sunrise—a town of the Old West that is strangely well maintained, but seemingly abandoned. A place that holds the missing link to a ghost story one hundred years in the making.

In 2003, Sand Daw's golden boy Coll is putting the finishing touches on the town's annual historical reenactment. But when an upstart would-be author comes to him with questions about one of Sunrise's most beloved figures, it threatens to upend everything he thought he knew about the city—and himself.

In 1902, town founder, gunslinger, and legendary pulp hero Anton Vargas returns to Sunrise and quickly takes charge of a group searching for a missing boy. But who really is Vargas? What does he know about the boy's disappearance? And why has he returned after such a long absence?

These three strangers are separated by time and circumstance. But Sunrise's many secrets are like gunpowder: quiet, contained, until they encounter a spark. Magisterial and suspenseful, Téa Obreht's novel challenges the myths we think we know: of heroes and villains, of the people and places to which we lay claim, and, most of all, of our own lives.

  • Publisher: Random House

    Title: Sunrise

    Author: Téa Obreht

    On Sale Date: August 11, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9781984855534

    ISBN 10: 1984855530

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $29.00

    BISAC: Literary Fiction; Western Fiction; Historical Fiction

    Page Count: 336 pages

    Dimensions: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

  • Téa Obreht's debut novel, The Tiger's Wife, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 and established her as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine, among other publications. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she now teaches at Hunter College.

  • Critics and fellow bestselling authors are calling it spellbinding, engrossing, suspense-driven:

    • "I've loved every book Téa Obreht has written." — Liz Moore, bestselling author of The God of the Woods

    • "The result is pure fun." — Julia Scheeres, The New York Times Book Review

    • "An engrossing, original and thought-provoking novel." — Nina Allan, The Guardian

    • "Obreht distinguishes herself as a spellbinding writer." — Lauren LeBlanc, Alta

This book is for you if

  • You love a novel that jumps between three timelines and trusts you to keep up.

  • You're fascinated by ghost towns and the stories people invent to explain them.

  • You want a survival story that turns into something much stranger.

  • You loved The Tiger's Wife and have been waiting for Obreht's next big swing.

  • You like fiction that treats the Old West as myth to be picked apart, not celebrated.

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