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
WINNER: WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER: FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER'S CHOICE AWARD Shortlisted, Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Shortlisted, An Post Irish Novel of the Year
'Beautiful, gentle, intricate... Here We Are smuggles within the pages of a seemingly commonplace tale depths of emotion and narrative complexity that take the breath away.' - The Observer
Jin's richly textured, unsparing writing questions whether a self can exist unmarked by the past ― New Yorker It's a page-turner - but all the while it winks, reminding us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it ― Paris Review
'Shafak's most ambitious novel yer, and her best - generous and imaginative' - Independent 'Fasicnating. A vigorous evocation of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power' - Sunday Times
* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* 'A gorgeous, jewelled, luxurious book' - The Times Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' - Daily Telegraph 'With it's timely, through provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon' - Independent
WINNER OF THE 1997 MAN BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary—at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple—that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.”—The New York Times Book Review “A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.”—John Updike, The New Yorker
2021's Most Highly Anticipated New Books Newsweek 'A bold, edgy, accomplished debut!' Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress 'Intriguing… Readers who enjoy parallel historical/contemporary narratives about women’s lives, such as Claire McMillan’s The Necklace or Liz Trenow’s The Forgotten Seamstress, will enjoy the historical details and mystery in this engrossing tale.' Library Journal 'Readers who enjoy Katherine Howe…
'The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali brilliantly excavates a forgotten past of several societies and honours its human complexity with a narrative of delicate precision. As affecting as it is intellectually powerful, the novel is a master lesson in the art of historical fiction.’– Pankaj Mishra ‘A glorious novel about a forgotten place and a part of our history…
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, “a miraculous debut” (Washington Post) and “a towering achievement of imagination” (CBS This Morning)about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their…
