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'Miraculous' OMAR EL AKKAD
'Stunning' MAAZA MENGISTE
'Heartbreakingly urgent' JUSTIN TORRES
'Quite astonishing' JOY WILLIAMS
'Read it, read it, read it' RABIH ALAMEDDINE
The intimate, sweeping tale of one man's restless search for home, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope.
A New Arab most anticipated book of 2026.
All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien's shoe.
Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948's Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he's ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. This is the precise moment when time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward, always on the way - although in search of what, he is never quite sure. In the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town, he spends his youth wrapped up in the sweet promise of the West and the forgetful assurance of wine. When life takes him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls for a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of the desert, in Arizona.
The lyrical pages of Paradiso 17 are haunted with grief and yet they are also struck through with light - not just the light that Sufien sees as he approaches his own end, but the brilliant light of a life lived.
Like all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.
'There is something miraculous about Paradiso 17 ... an unforgettable story' OMAR EL AKKAD, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
'I could not put down this sweeping narrative ... Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit' MAAZA MENGISTE, author of The Shadow King
'A gripping story of a soul in exile' JUSTIN TORRES, author of Blackouts
'A searing portrait ... of a man reeling from home to home after the loss of Palestine' HALA ALYAN, author of I'll Tell You When I'm Home
'Paradiso 17 is remarkable ... read it, read it, read it' RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible
'An intense, fearless, lyrical and quite astonishing novel' JOY WILLIAMS, author of Harrow
'A miraculous novel' KASIM ALI, author of Who Will Remain
'Paradiso 17 took my breath away ... I wept at its ending' LYDIA KIESLING, author of Mobility
- Publisher Name:HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN: 9780008743727
- Author:Assadi, Hannah Lillith
- Publication Date:2026-03-17
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