{"product_id":"paradiso-17-hannah-lillith-assadi-9780008743727","title":"Paradiso 17","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Miraculous' OMAR EL AKKAD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Stunning' MAAZA MENGISTE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Suffused with tenderness' NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful and powerful' LISA OWENS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wondrous' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien's shoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eParadiso 17 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An exquisite novel ... unforgettable' OMAR EL AKKAD, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I could not put this down ... Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit' MAAZA MENGISTE, author of The Shadow King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A gripping story of a soul in exile' JUSTIN TORRES, author of Blackouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A miraculous novel' KASIM ALI, author of Who Will Remain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Remarkable ... read it, read it, read it' RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Lyrical and gorgeously original ... reads as poetry' LITHUB\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48599914643699,"sku":"9780008743727","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/paradiso-17_1.jpg?v=1772662436","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/paradiso-17-hannah-lillith-assadi-9780008743727","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}