Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili

Hard by a Great Forest by Leo VardiashviliAN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 *A spellbinding achievement FINANCIAL TIMESPoignant and often painfully comic OBSERVERI gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it KHALED HOSSEINISabas father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia. Arriving in a city he has not seen for more than two decades, where escaped zoo animals prowl the streets and the voices of those

This lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life announced the arrival of one of the greatest American novelists of the last thirty years

from across the island of Ireland – and further afield – celebrate a strong community and its allies

For the first time

powerfully written novel: a Kite Runner for Palestine

Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies The story of Christine Jorgensen

exploring what it is to create and live as an artist

their racial identities

from insanity

By turns funny and sobering

No matter what the future holds

For some people

in a town deep in the Balou mountains