I Will Greet the Sun Again
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:11th Jul '24
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- Hardback£14.99(9780241514733)
'A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching... a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery' Guardian
'I will be thinking about these characters for the rest of my life' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family
Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium.
Lyrical and open-hearted, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes.
'Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer' Sunday Times
'Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water and Small Worlds
A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching... a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery * Guardian *
Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful * Caleb Azumah Nelson *
Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer * Sunday Times *
A heartbreaking debut * New York Times *
A moving debut, teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating. Khashayar J. Khabushani’s voice keens and surprises, and at the center of the book we find K, tenderhearted, spirit glowing like a beacon -- Justin Torres, author of WE THE ANIMALS
Khashayar J. Khabushani's debut novel - told from the perspective of an Iranian American boy whose immigrant parents are struggling to build a life in L.A. - is a brutally intimate reckoning with coming of age as a Muslim after 9/11, the confusion of navigating conflicting worlds, and the burning desire to belong * New York Magazine *
A beautiful, lyrical delve into identity, familial betrayal, and the lasting effects of childhood trauma. Khabushani renders American boyhood and coming of age as viscerally and clear-eyed as he transports--from L.A.'s basketball courts and housing complexes to the bazaars and highways of Iran. I Will Greet the Sun Again is as breathtaking as it is heartbreaking. -- Jonathan Escoffery, Booker-shortlisted author of I WILL SURVIVE YOU
Khashayar J. Khabushani's debut novel, devoted to adolescence in all its glory and devastation, is a marvel. Reading it, I felt the thrill and joy of encountering a major writer at the beginning of his career -- Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING
A work of meticulous care and genuine candor, one that shies away from no earthly event, yet spiritually soars. To read it is to experience the contradictions of the weighty and the exalted, to witness a self forged by both brutality and love. Khabushani is a poetic visionary, as generous as he is brave -- Heidi Julavits, author of THE FOLDED CLOCK and THE VANISHERS
Khashayar J. Khabushani has taken a coming-of-age story and flooded it with light. His sentences are as delicate as ripe berries, yet the voice manages to be intrepid, determined and clear. This is a gorgeous and wrenching debut from a writer I'll be following for many years to come -- Catherine Lacey, author of NOBODY IS EVER MISSING
ISBN: 9780241514740
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 174g
240 pages