* 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-Hugely impressive- NEW EUROPEAN-Novels like this might help light the way- GUARDIAN''At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile'' ECONOMISTTbilisi-s littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn-t even bring toothpaste.Saba-s father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia.It-s been two decades since Irakli fled his war-torn homeland with two young sons, now grown men. Two decades since he saw their mother, who stayed so they could escape. At long
