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Book SynopsisA startlingly imaginative exploration of the African diaspora in Europe, by one of our most acclaimed international writers.
Trade Review"Once I started reading
Travelers, I couldn’t stop. It’s an unsettling book that faces the urgent questions of our times and doesn’t settle for easy answers. Yet the resilience of the characters, the mature decision to avoid melodrama, gives us a novel full of hope and wonder, tied to fully realized characters that as readers, we come to care about. I loved this book. It is indeed Habila at his best." -- Leila Aboulela, author of The Kindness of Enemies and Elsewhere, Home
"Urgent, deeply empathetic, and resisting easy answers,
Travelers follows the interconnected lives of African immigrants and refugees in Europe and examines the meanings of freedom, diaspora and home. Habila is a masterful storyteller, and this novel a riveting testament to the power of fiction." -- Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"A moving and eye-opening novel that captures our global political moment and plumbs the many layers of life in exile, of people who are forever bereft in their 'traveling'. Helon Habila writes with the eye of a journalist, the tools of an artist, and the heart of a sober and compassionate witness." -- Vu Tran, author of Dragonfish
"At once intimate and expansive,
Travelers captivated me from the very first pages." -- Aminatta Forna, author of Happiness and The Memory of Love
"I enjoyed
Travelers immensely. Habila has written a pressure cooker of a story, an urgent novel that contends with the rootlessness of our world." -- Elliot Ackerman, author of Waiting for Eden
"Unforgettable. Helon Habila writes of individual lives—pulled apart by our wars, our failed states and our deepest fears—with insight and searing compassion." -- Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing
"Habila evokes the visceral, heartbreaking anguish of the outsider's dilemma…Guaranteed to promote empathy and understanding for refugees worldwide." -- Library Journal (starred review)
