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Sensually written, there is an extravagant feel even to the simplest sentence. From start to finish that exquisitely profound quality of uncertainty is the most wrenching aspect of all * Sunday Telegraph * Submerged grief gives this fine novel the mythic inexorability of Greek tragedy * Economist * Matar suffuses Nuri's education in love and loss with an erotic frisson and fragile grace that lend the book an inner radiance * Independent * Haunting in every sense. An absorbing novel that finds its eloquence in what is left unsaid and its most vivid imagery in what has been lost, possibly for ever * Sunday Times * Each time I had to put it down I couldn't wait to get back to it -- Michael Frayn I was moved and very impressed -- Roddy Doyle Hisham Matar is a master of the evocative; he creates his effects, on the page and on our nervous system with the fewest and most telling words. I was spellbound * Ahdaf Soueif * This beautiful, subtle novel, like the lives of its characters, repays many readings -- Helen Dunmore * The Times * A fable of loss, and an often troubling meditation on fathers and sons. Matar is writing from the heart * Observer *
