Against the Day Literature and East Van's first craft

and East Van's first craft brewery to the ferries in Horseshoe Bay

and play with friends

in the depths of the Great Depression

and witty American poets

WINNER OF THE 2024 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • One of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year • A “masterly” (The New York Times)

Against the Day Literature and East Van's first craft[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel. The New York Times Book Review Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant. USA Today Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling. The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a