{"product_id":"travellers-novelle-9780241986295","title":"Travellers Novelle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Once I started reading \u003ci\u003eTravellers\u003c\/i\u003e, I couldn''t stop. \u003c\/b\u003eWith power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not only refugees hungering for the north, pushing their way through the barriers of waves, human failings and unrealistic dreams.\u003cb\u003eThe novel has all the weight of art with the sting of breaking news. I loved it. It is Habila at his best'' \u003c\/b\u003eLeila Aboulela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoignant and beautifully sculpted, a novel about exile, identity and the many kinds of travellers moving through our modern world - from the Caine Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOil on Water \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWaiting for an Angel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern Europe is a melting pot of migrating souls: among them a Nigerian American couple on a prestigious arts fellowship, a transgender film student seeking the freedom of authenticity, a Libyan doctor who lost his wife and child in the waters of the Mediterranean, and a Somalian shopkeeper trying t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelon Habila's fourth novel has it all - intelligence, tragedy, poetry, love, intimacy, compassion and a serious, soulful, arms-wide engagement\u003c\/b\u003e with one of the most acute human concerns of our age: the refugee crisis... * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wonderful gem. . . \u003c\/b\u003eHeartbreaking but equally life-affirming tales that beautifully connect and intertwine, \u003cb\u003eleaving us longing for more\u003c\/b\u003e -- Elif Shafak\u003cbr\u003eOnce I started reading \u003ci\u003eTravellers\u003c\/i\u003e, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe...The novel has all the weight of art with the sting of breaking news.  It faces the urgent questions of our times and doesn't settle for easy answers...it is indeed Habila at his best. * Leila Aboulela *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrgent, deeply empathetic, and resisting easy answers\u003c\/b\u003e, TRAVELERS follows the interconnected lives of African immigrants and refugees in Europe and examines the meanings of freedom, diaspora and home. \u003cb\u003eHabila is a masterful storyteller, and this novel a riveting testament to the power of fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribing worlds and convergences that are 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAt once intimate and expansive, \u003ci\u003eTravellers\u003c\/i\u003e captivated me from the very first pages * Aminatta Forna *\u003cbr\u003ea parable of our times and Habila tells it beautifully, \u003cb\u003eshedding poignant light on the world of the dispossessed and the stateless.\u003c\/b\u003e * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eAdroitly \u003cb\u003eteasing out the rich quiddity of his characters' diverse journeys\u003c\/b\u003e, he instead makes the simple yet valuable point that\u003cb\u003e refugees' lives are as irreducibly complex as anyone else's.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA quietly haunting novel that captures the untethered, unreal nature of migrant and refugee existence. * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eYarns of persecution, paranoia, even manslaughter, unspool across its patchwork pattern. \u003cb\u003eHabila tells them with cunning, flair and a sleight-of-hand that lightens even the gloomiest scenes.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eIn an era of mass migration, Habila suggests, \u003cb\u003estories are a common ground, a means of making ourselves at home with our homelessness.\u003c\/b\u003e * Literary Review *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733431693655,"sku":"9780241986295","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/travellers-novelle-9780241986295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}