Hard by a Great Forest

*LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025*<BR>* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 *<BR>* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 *<BR><BR>'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES<BR>'Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER<BR>'I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINI<BR><BR>Saba's father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia.<BR><BR>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 left behind beckon him along a path of cryptic clues, Saba embarks on a quest that will lead him into the heart of a lost homeland.<BR><BR>This is a rare, searching tale of home, memory and sacrifice - of one family's mission to rescue one another, and put the past to rest.<BR><BR>'Hugely impressive' NEW EUROPEAN<BR>'Novels like this might help light the way' GUARDIAN<BR>'At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile' ECONOMIST