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Recommended by Mel
I read this in hardback at the end of 2023 and I’ve been desperate for it to come into paperback. Hardback debuts are always hard to sell – even ones as good at this! The storytelling is fabulous, the characters are compelling. Saba left his war torn city of Tiblisi two decades ago. But now his father is missing and he is compelled to revisit the land of his childhood to try to find him. The search leads him to unpick the stories of his childhood rich with humour and sadness.
This is our Last Wednesday Bookclub choice for February.
Saba’s 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 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. 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.