Publish Date |
June 06, 2023 |
Category |
Fiction / Urban & Street Lit Fiction / Political |
Price |
$24.99 |
ISBN: 9781668009857
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: June 06, 2023
“This is a moving and original debut novel from a very talented writer. I loved its inventive structure, which guides the reader through the linked lives of the people of Wazirabad. Chapter by chapter we’re invited into their dreams, to experience the tenderness and troubles of their lives. The result is resonant and communal storytelling about people and a place that will stick with you for a long time.”
— ALIX OHLIN, award-winning author of We Want What We Want and Dual Citizens“In this evocative, confident debut Jamaluddin Aram paints a vivid portrait of a neighbourhood and its denizens, obstinately going about their daily lives despite deprivation and violence. Anyone who has been ensconced in a close-knit community will recognize these complicated characters whose humanity Aram reveals with unerring and unsentimental precision. . . . A vivacious debut from an author to watch.”
— SHARON BALA, bestselling author of The Boat People“With this sublimely engrossing novel, Jamaluddin Aram has evoked the spirit of a small Afghani community by cataloguing its dreams, crimes, visions, jokes, characters, and myths. All with an aching tenderness that warms every single page. This is the work of a fully formed literary talent, a writer you should not only watch, but listen to, as closely as you possibly can.”
— MICHAEL CHRISTIE, bestselling author of Greenwood“This book is a masterpiece, and I do not say those words lightly. Opening Aram’s novel is like waking into a lucid dream. Here, fable and nightmare fuse into a single flavor. Everything feels strange and yet so preternaturally real, and the strangest thing of all is how normal it all comes to feel . . . Some books demand admiration for the intensity of the writer’s imagination, some for the depth of detail, some for the poetry of the language, some for the authority of the writer’s voice—rarely do we see all these powers operating in consort as we do here.”
— TAMIM ANSARY, author of The Invention of Yesterday