{"product_id":"paradiso-17-9780008743727","title":"Paradiso 17","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Miraculous’ \u003c\/strong\u003eOMAR EL AKKAD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Stunning’\u003c\/strong\u003e MAAZA MENGISTE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Suffused with tenderness’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful and powerful’\u003c\/strong\u003e LISA OWENS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Wondrous’\u003c\/strong\u003e NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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. In this moment time stops making sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe spends the rest of his life propelled forward – 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 forgetful assurance of wine. When life carries him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls in love with a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Until finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of a desert much like his first home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/em\u003e is haunted with grief and yet it is also struck through with the dazzling light of a life truly lived and a love that connects us, no matter our distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLike all of our dead, Sufien still speaks\u003c\/em\u003e, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An exquisite novel … unforgettable’ \u003c\/strong\u003eOMAR EL AKKAD, author of \u003cem\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I could not put this down … Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit’ \u003c\/strong\u003eMAAZA MENGISTE, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow King\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A gripping story of a soul in exile’\u003c\/strong\u003e JUSTIN TORRES, author of \u003cem\u003eBlackouts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A miraculous novel’ \u003c\/strong\u003eKASIM ALI, author of \u003cem\u003eWho Will Remain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Remarkable … read it, read it, read it’\u003c\/strong\u003e RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of \u003cem\u003eThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Lyrical and gorgeously original … reads as poetry’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLITHUB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780008743727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 31 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 21.6(H)x13.5(L)x2.8(W)320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 320\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eHannah Lillith Assadi was raised by a Jewish mother and Palestinian father. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, is the author of Sonora, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN\/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel The Stars Are Not Yet Bells was a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. 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