ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2024 An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love... Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah Nelson. GUARDIAN Immaculately observed... I found myself not wanting The Anthropologists to end. FINANCIAL TIMES Sava prose is an Xray an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life. RAVEN LEILANI Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together? As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentary filmmaker, spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs, anxious to know how people really live. Forget about daily life, chides her grandmother on the phone, no one cares about that. Meanwhile, life back in Asya and Manus respective home countries continues parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world theyre making in their new city is growing, too, they hope. As they open up the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, latenight conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, The Anthropologists is a soulful examination of homebuilding and modern love,...

Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 266 g; Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 15

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