Synopsis
Discover the life-affirming debut novel from acclaimed poet Kaveh Akbar: a love letter to the world and our search for meaning - in faith, art, ourselves and those we care for.
A Book of the Year in The Observer, The New York Times, TIME, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and shorlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction
'Dazzling'...
Details
06 February 2025352 pages
9781035026081Imprint: Picador
Reviews
I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life.John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
Smart, dazzling, different... a novel of depth and complexity, tragedy and humour . . . This book is thrilling. There's no other word for it. It's like watching the novel itself be reinventedAnn Patchett, author of Tom Lake
Playful, soulful, kaleidoscopic, honest and profoundly movingElif Shafak, author of There Are Rivers in the Sky
Kaveh Akbar is a radiant soul, a poet so agile and largehearted it comes as no surprise that his first leap into fiction is elegant, dizzying, playful. Lauren Groff, author of The Matrix
