{"product_id":"paradiso-17-the-unforgettable-moving-new-novel-from-the-author-of-sonora","title":"Paradiso 17","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Heartbreakingly urgent’ JUSTIN TORRES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Quite astonishing’ JOY WILLIAMS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Read it, read it, read it’ RABIH ALAMEDDINE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New Arab most anticipated book of 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.\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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘There is something miraculous about Paradiso 17 … an unforgettable story’ OMAR EL AKKAD, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I could not put down this sweeping narrative … Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit’ MAAZA MENGISTE, author of The Shadow King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A gripping story of a soul in exile’ JUSTIN TORRES, author of Blackouts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Paradiso 17 is remarkable … read it, read it, read it’ RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An intense, fearless, lyrical and quite astonishing novel’ JOY WILLIAMS, author of Harrow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A miraculous novel’ KASIM ALI, author of Who Will Remain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Paradiso 17 took my breath away … I wept at its ending’ LYDIA KIESLING, author of Mobility\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HEDS Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48449798308063,"sku":"9780008743727","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9780008743727.jpg?v=1771107280","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/paradiso-17-the-unforgettable-moving-new-novel-from-the-author-of-sonora","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}