Light in August is a novel, first published in 1932, by the American author William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize winner. The book belongs to modernism movement. The novel is set in the period between the wars, the story revolves around two characters - a man and a woman. In this novel, Faulkner addresses such important topics as race, gender, class differences, and so forth. This novel is considered one of the best in the 20th century.