A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness

Financial Times

Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled … Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness

Guardian

A giant of novel … Beautifully realised

Independent

Shamsie achieves the near impossibility of a truly intimate epic tale … I challenge anyone to put this book down lightly

Shami Chakrabarti, Observer, Books of the Year

Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping

Emma Thompson