* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 *‘A spellbinding achievement’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘Poignant and often painfully comic’ OBSERVER‘I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it’ KHALED HOSSEINI‘Hugely impressive’ NEW EUROPEAN‘Novels like this might help light the way’ GUARDIAN'At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile' ECONOMISTTbilisi’s littered with memories that await me like landmines.The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn’t even bring toothpaste.Saba’s father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia.It’s been two decades since Irakli fled his war-torn homeland with two young sons, now grown men.Two decades since he saw their mother, who stayed so they could escape. At long last, Tbilisi has lured him home. But when Irakli’s phone calls stop, a mystery begins... Arriving in the city as es