It is about grief and forgiveness, about family and politics. It is a delirious and thrilling improvisation, a jazz solo spun out of that meeting … A spectacular structure of stories about everything’ Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesĪ work that is both spectacularly inventive and grounded in brutal fact. And their stories become one story, a story with the power to heal – and the power to change the world. When Rami and Bassam meet, and tell one another the story of their grief, the most unexpected thing of all happens: they become best of friends. Both are fathers both are fathers of daughters – and both daughters are now lost. Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem – but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict. How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? ‘A quite extraordinary novel’ Kamila Shamsie ‘An empathy engine … It is, itself, an agent of change’ New York Times Book Review It left me hopeful this is its gift’ Elizabeth Strout WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDSĬHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
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