{"product_id":"pre-order-paradiso-17-by-hannah-lillith-assadi-hc","title":"PRE-ORDER: Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi (HC)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLike all of our dead, Sufien still speaks\u003c\/span\u003e, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"It has an operatic resonance … \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003esuffused with tenderness.\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Assadi’s writing is excellent … there are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emoments of levity and of beauty\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. There is hope and connection through the generations.\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewonderfully sprawling, almost picaresque\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e story, which gains power from her resistance to passing simple judgment on her protagonist.\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover Edition\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Fourth Estate\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e978-0008743710\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Page \u0026 Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45207154786512,"sku":null,"price":1675.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8000\/5328\/files\/91B7Wf6-0tL._SL1500.jpg?v=1791442143","url":"https:\/\/pageandturner.ph\/products\/pre-order-paradiso-17-by-hannah-lillith-assadi-hc","provider":"Page \u0026 Turner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}