A novel that is included in the list of the 100 best books of the 20th century. Hazel Motes, who returned from the war, is obsessed with the idea of driving God out of his heart. Having met the cynical preacher Asa Hawks and his fifteen-year-old daughter, he founds a new Church - without the crucified Christ, where the lame do not walk, the blind do not see, and the dead lie in their graves. But a meeting with the half-mad Enoch Emery, in whose veins “wise blood” flows, makes Hazel truly “see the light”... A tragicomic saga about redemption and retribution, false prophets and true wisdom, a crisis of faith and the search for a path.