{"product_id":"9780008743710","title":"Paradiso 17","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily says about Paradiso 17:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"Based on the life of the author’s father Paradiso 17 is an epic and heartbreaking tale of a flawed man far from home. From Palestine to the deserts of Arizona we follow Sufien as he is buffeted between rags and riches. A cathartic and beautiful book.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParadiso 17 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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Assadi, Hannah Lillith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57787346256246,"sku":"9780008743710","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0362\/8423\/5908\/files\/9780008743710.jpg?v=1777711245","url":"https:\/\/haslemerebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780008743710","provider":"The Haslemere Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}