‘I loved, admired and envied this novel, it’s a wonder.’ – Zadie Smith: One of the most talked about books of the year, a dazzling, provocative novel from a major new international writer of rare and extraordinary talent.

‘A scorchingly intelligent first novel’ – New York Times
‘Spellbinding’ – New Yorker
‘Thrilling’ – Guardian

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer.

At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.