WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 A GUARDIAN and THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This slight book is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of what happens to the souls of men sent to kill and be killed' -- The Times, Historical Fiction Books of the Year
'I felt Budhini had to be revived from the criminal forgetfulness of the country; she wasn't just a mud block that was broken during the great nation-building process. I felt that she should rise again in the nation's memory along with the hundreds of villages, vast farmlands, forests and temple complexes that were drowned in the Panchet reservoir.' SARAH JOSEPH
It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages. -- Adam Staten ― British Journal of General Practice Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who…
Shortlisted for Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Chosen as a Book of the Year by THE GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESS, IRISH TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, NEWSWEEK, PEOPLE, KIRKUS, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND GOODREADS
'A powerful testament to spiritual yearning and the human desire to transcend the physical world' ― Sunday Times A visceral portrait of the life of St Paul' ― Guardian 'The novel Tsiolkas was born to write' ― Financial Times
