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. 'In barely 200 pages, Yoon hands the reader a piercing classic about survival and about the search for home and family…’ FT'Gorgeous…a sublimely quiet depiction of loneliness and disorientation.' Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust and In the Distance‘For all its compactness, Etna has the shape of an epic. The story draws explicit comparisons to Homer’s The Odyssey… the novel is tied deeply into both ancient literary tradition and tragically perennial concerns’ Atlantic‘An inspirational story about optimism and endurance. One could even go so far as to call it a canine version of The Odyssey’, Buzz Magazine 'I knew I'd be moved by this book. A dog trained for war tries to find his way home. Kleenex required', Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry (on Instagram)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 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
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