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Boston Globe Best Book of 2019
“This is the answer to the question of what contemporary fiction can do.” —Edward Docx,
GuardianTrade Review"This novel has all the weight of art with the sting of breaking news.… I loved this book. It is indeed [Helon] Habila at his best." -- Leila Aboulela, author of Elsewhere, Home
"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
"Habila has outdone himself, giving his characters the dignity which the media often fails to." -- Samira Sawlani - African Arguments
"At once intimate and expansive,
Travelers captivated me from the very first pages." -- Aminatta Forna, author of Happiness and The Memory of Love
"The novel’s unassuming title is suggestive of [Helon] Habila’s cool, open-minded approach to a hot-button subject. While he leaves us in little doubt of the horrors his characters have escaped, he seldom invites us to gawp. Adroitly teasing out the rich quiddity of his characters’ diverse journeys, he instead makes the simple yet valuable point that refugees’ lives are as irreducibly complex as anyone else’s." -- Anthony Cummins - Guardian
"The book’s elaborate depiction of a range of personal sacrifices brings into focus the human tragedies obscured by statistics and discussions of public policy." -- The New Yorker
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Travellers is a rich mosaic of African migrant experiences." -- EastAfrican
"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
"Habila’s latest is a resonant, relevant novel." -- Jane Ciabattari - BBC
"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
