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    The Newer World

    A Novel

    Author Sebastian Barry
    Hardcover
    $28.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Viking
    5-1/2"W x 8-1/4"H | 12 oz | 12 per carton
    On sale Sep 15, 2026 | 240 Pages | 9780593654613
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    From “one of the best writers in the English language” (The Washington Post), a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man’s life in the aftermath of the Civil War

    “I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things...were gone forever.”

    Born into bondage in Union-leaning northwest Tennessee, Tennyson Bouguereau spends his days working the tobacco fields of a small farm, avoiding any action that might drive his pro-Confederate neighbors to the kind of unprovoked violence that killed his mother. But in the wake of emancipation, when a gang of defeated rebels descend on the farm, his choice to defend it and the people within makes Tennyson a wanted man. He will not now have the chance to till the ten acres he and his sister, Rosalee, have been given as their own. Instead, he must leave the relative safety of the only home he’s known, and venture into the newer world.

    Set against the rapidly shifting landscape of 19th century America, from a religious school in Nashville to army camps in New Mexico and South Dakota, and featuring beloved characters from Sebastian Barry’s award-winning novels Days Without End and A Thousand Moons, The Newer World is a lyrical, visceral novel about what it is to survive, and what might be lost along the way. Dreamlike and unforgettable, it is the work of a consummate storyteller at the height of his powers.
    Advance Praise for The Newer World:

    “Tender, elegiac . . . This is the novelist at his best.” —The Observer, “Fiction to look out for in 2026”

    “There’s a beautiful looseness to the novel, almost a wildness, the mark of a true, natural storyteller. It’s easily among his best works.” —Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier

    “Another novel full of exquisite prose amid the horrors of war. As long as Sebastian Barry continues to write, I will be first in line to read his work.” —Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond
    © Hannah Cunningham
    Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, he is the author of nine novels, five of which have been long- or short-listed for The Booker Prize, most recently Old God’s Time (2023). His work has won numerous awards in Ireland, the UK, and France, including the Costa Book of the Year award, the Walter Scott Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In the U.S., his novels have been recognized by the ALA Carnegie Medal (longlist), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (shortlist), and the High Plains Book Award (winner). He lives in County Wicklow, Ireland. View titles by Sebastian Barry

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    From “one of the best writers in the English language” (The Washington Post), a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man’s life in the aftermath of the Civil War

    “I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things...were gone forever.”

    Born into bondage in Union-leaning northwest Tennessee, Tennyson Bouguereau spends his days working the tobacco fields of a small farm, avoiding any action that might drive his pro-Confederate neighbors to the kind of unprovoked violence that killed his mother. But in the wake of emancipation, when a gang of defeated rebels descend on the farm, his choice to defend it and the people within makes Tennyson a wanted man. He will not now have the chance to till the ten acres he and his sister, Rosalee, have been given as their own. Instead, he must leave the relative safety of the only home he’s known, and venture into the newer world.

    Set against the rapidly shifting landscape of 19th century America, from a religious school in Nashville to army camps in New Mexico and South Dakota, and featuring beloved characters from Sebastian Barry’s award-winning novels Days Without End and A Thousand Moons, The Newer World is a lyrical, visceral novel about what it is to survive, and what might be lost along the way. Dreamlike and unforgettable, it is the work of a consummate storyteller at the height of his powers.

    Praise

    Advance Praise for The Newer World:

    “Tender, elegiac . . . This is the novelist at his best.” —The Observer, “Fiction to look out for in 2026”

    “There’s a beautiful looseness to the novel, almost a wildness, the mark of a true, natural storyteller. It’s easily among his best works.” —Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier

    “Another novel full of exquisite prose amid the horrors of war. As long as Sebastian Barry continues to write, I will be first in line to read his work.” —Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond

    Author

    © Hannah Cunningham
    Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, he is the author of nine novels, five of which have been long- or short-listed for The Booker Prize, most recently Old God’s Time (2023). His work has won numerous awards in Ireland, the UK, and France, including the Costa Book of the Year award, the Walter Scott Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In the U.S., his novels have been recognized by the ALA Carnegie Medal (longlist), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (shortlist), and the High Plains Book Award (winner). He lives in County Wicklow, Ireland. View titles by Sebastian Barry

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