{"product_id":"9780008743741","title":"Paradiso 17","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Miraculous' \u003c\/strong\u003eOMAR EL AKKAD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Heartbreakingly urgent'\u003c\/strong\u003e JUSTIN TORRES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Quite astonishing' \u003c\/strong\u003eJOY WILLIAMS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Read it, read it, read it'\u003c\/strong\u003e RABIH ALAMEDDINE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I wept at its ending'\u003c\/strong\u003e LYDIA KIESLING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eAll his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \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, \u003cem\u003ealways on the way \u003c\/em\u003e– 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 \u003cem\u003eParadiso 17 \u003c\/em\u003eweave in and out of time and space, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. They 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\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‘There is something miraculous about \u003cem\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/em\u003e … an unforgettable story’ \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'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 searing portrait … of a man reeling from home to home after the loss of Palestine’ \u003c\/strong\u003eHALA ALYAN, author of \u003cem\u003eI’ll Tell You When I’m Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An intense, fearless, lyrical and quite astonishing novel’\u003c\/strong\u003e JOY WILLIAMS, author of \u003cem\u003eHarrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable … read it, read it, read it’\u003c\/strong\u003e RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Unnecessary Woman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/em\u003e took my breath away … I wept at its ending’\u003c\/strong\u003e LYDIA KIESLING, author of \u003cem\u003eMobility\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889192063125,"sku":"9780008743741","price":41.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008743741_6007c51a-e275-4008-98c0-834a4d7f6fc0.jpg?v=1776888147","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008743741","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}