{"product_id":"9780008743727","title":"Paradiso 17","description":"Author: Hannah Lillith Assadi\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008743727\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 31 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Suffused with tenderness’ \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.\u003c\/em\u003e\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. In this moment time stops making sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/em\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\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‘An exquisite novel … unforgettable’ OMAR EL AKKAD, author of \u003cem\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I could not put this down … Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit’ MAAZA MENGISTE, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow King\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A gripping story of a soul in exile’ JUSTIN TORRES, author of \u003cem\u003eBlackouts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A miraculous novel’ KASIM ALI, author of \u003cem\u003eWho Will Remain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Remarkable … read it, read it, read it’ RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of \u003cem\u003eThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Lyrical and gorgeously original … reads as poetry’ \u003cem\u003eLITHUB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46795782881438,"sku":"HPC-9780008743727","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008743727.jpg?v=1778027405","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008743727","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}