LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025 AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 A spellbinding achievement FINANCIAL TIMESPoignant and often painfully comic OBSERVERI gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it KHALED HOSSEINISabas father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia.Arriving in a city he has not seen for more than two decades, where escaped zoo animals prowl the streets and the voices of those left behind beckon him along a path of cryptic clues, Saba embarks on a quest that will lead him into the heart of a lost homeland.This is a rare, searching tale of home, memory and sacrifice of one familys mission to rescue one another, and put the past to rest.Hugely impressive NEW EUROPEANNovels like this might help light the way GUARDIANAt once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile ECONOMIST

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: FA; Weight: 370 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 24

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