Daniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier, and A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth-- a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-- and North Woods-- a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an associate professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry.

Praise for Country People

"Wonderful--full of joy--and exactly the kind of reading experience we could all do with right now . . . the book of the summer."--Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow Horses

Praise for North Woods

"A monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal. I loved it."--Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet

"Dazzling . . . both intimate and epic, playful and serious. To read it is to travel to the limits of what the novel can do."--The Guardian

"Brilliantly combines the granularity of realism with the timeless, shimmering allure of myth . . . [an] eccentric and exhilarating novel."--The New York Times Book Review

Publisher: Random House

Pub date: 2026-07-07

Length: 320 pages