Paradiso 17

Praise for Paradiso 17:
‘It has an operatic resonance … suffused with tenderness’ New York Times
‘Assadi’s writing is excellent … there are moments of levity and of beauty. There is hope and connection through the generations’ New Statesman
‘A wonderfully sprawling, almost picaresque story, which gains power from her resistance to passing simple judgment on her protagonist’ New Yorker
‘Told in poetic prose, Paradiso 17 asks what it means to truly belong’ Harper’s Bazaar
‘A corrective to the fiction of moral convenience … rife with the unquenchable desire to find oneself safely at home’ Alta
‘A wise and lyrical novel, full of humanity and love … a vivid depiction of a single human life’ Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre
‘I could not put down this sweeping narrative, written in some of the most transcendent prose I have read in a long time’ Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King
‘A beautiful and powerful exploration of selfhood and endurance in the face of profound loss’ Lisa Owens, author of Natural Disaster
‘Beautifully crafted … Assadi is a master of time and place’ Vulture
‘Assadi is a gorgeous writer, and here she unfurls a gripping story of a soul in exile … heartbreakingly urgent’ Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
‘A searing portrait of exile, of a man reeling from home to home after the loss of Palestine’ Hala Alyan, author of I’ll Tell You When I’m Home
‘Unforgettable … a deeply nuanced exploration of exile as both event and inheritance’ Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
‘Generations are captured here, loss and pain and miraculous attempt at renewal. A beautiful work’ Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
‘A miraculous novel, not one I’ll be easily forgetting’ Kasim Ali, author of Who Will Remain
‘An intense, fearless, lyrical and quite astonishing novel about the haunted apparitional life of a refugee’ Joy Williams, author of Harrow

Hannah Lillith Assadi was raised by a Jewish mother and Palestinian father. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree and is the author of Sonora, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, was a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. She teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute.

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