{"product_id":"paradiso-17","title":"Paradiso 17","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHannah Lillith Assadi | Paperback | April 2026\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-5e50dbe2=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book__description__other-contributors copy\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Suffused with tenderness’ \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\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\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\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\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\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\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/i\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\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike all of our dead, Sufien still speaks\u003c\/i\u003e, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘An exquisite novel … unforgettable’ \u003cstrong\u003eOMAR EL AKKAD, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘I could not put this down … Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit’ \u003cstrong\u003eMAAZA MENGISTE, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘A gripping story of a soul in exile’ \u003cstrong\u003eJUSTIN TORRES, author of \u003ci\u003eBlackouts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘A miraculous novel’ \u003cstrong\u003eKASIM ALI, author of \u003ci\u003eWho Will Remain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Remarkable … read it, read it, read it’ \u003cstrong\u003eRABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of \u003ci\u003eThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Lyrical and gorgeously original … reads as poetry’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLITHUB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e---------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Info\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHannah Lillith Assadi\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of The Stars Are Not Yet Bells and 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. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honouree and teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. Raised in Arizona, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"booxies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284226617511,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/1523\/0375\/files\/paradiso17.jpg?v=1774913988","url":"https:\/\/booxies.com\/en-nz\/products\/paradiso-17","provider":"booxies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}