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 Hosseini
Saba’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.
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