WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkads What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamids Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice. Able God works for low pay at a fourstar hotel where he must flash his toothpastewhite smile for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotels overprivileged clientele, he muses over selfhelp books and draws life lessons from the game of chess. But Ables ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest. Suddenly caught in a web of violence, guilt, and fear, Able must run to save himselfa journey that takes him into the desert with a group of drugaddled migrants, headed by a charismatic religious leader calling himself Ben Ten. The travelers dream of reaching Europeand a new lifeis shattered when they fall prey to human traffickers, suffer starvation, and find themselves on the precipice of death, fighting for their lives and their freedom. As Able God moves into the treacherous unknown, his consciousness becomesfocused on survival and the foundations of his beliefshis ideas about betterment and salvationare forever altered. Suspenseful, incisive, and illuminating, The Road to the Salt Sea is a story of family, fate, religion,...

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 350 g; Dimensions: 202 x 135 x 19

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