Wistful ... Exquisitely atmospheric and tender ... A distinctive immigrant’s tale ... As a corrective to the fiction of moral convenience, read Assadi’s wistful and elegiac novel, brimming with contradictions and heartache yet rife with the unquenchable desire to find oneself safely at home.
Intimate, sweeping ... The lyrical pages of Paradiso 17 weave in and out of time and space, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. They are haunting, haunted with grief ... Brilliant.
Sweeping, deeply personal ... Dreamy, lyrical, sometimes over-the-top ... With a generous vision, Assadi has created an unforgettable character in a multidimensional world.
