Author: Vardiashvili, Leo
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 30 January 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 352 pages
198 x 129 | 0g
* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 *˜A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES˜Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER˜I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINISaba's 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 family's mission to rescue one another, and put the past to rest.
˜Hugely impressive' NEW EUROPEAN˜Novels like this might help light the way' GUARDIAN'At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile' ECONOMIST