Godsend (Hardback)
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Godsend (Hardback)

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Hardback 240 Pages
Published: 24/01/2019
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In California her name was Aden Grace Sawyer. In Pakistan she must choose a different name - Suleyman - and take on a new identity as a young man.

She has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she'll travel further to protect her secret. But once she is on the ground, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have dreamed.

Faced with violence and loss, she must make intense and unimaginable choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is.

Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a subtle masterpiece of empathy: a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go from home to find a place to belong.

Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781782119623
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 375 g
Dimensions: 220 x 144 x 25 mm
Edition: Main


MEDIA REVIEWS

Frequently mesmerising . . . This is a significant literary performance - Dwight Garner, New York Times

Rawly unsentimental but illuminated throughout by a subtle compassion, Godsend is a novel of enormous emotional intelligence which makes for compelling and consistently unpredictable reading - Robin Yassin-Kassab, Guardian

The 9/11 novel that finally understands the fulfilments of faith . . . It is not only Wray's heroine but also his novel that comes of age, steadily deepening and astounding as it develops . . . Godsend impresses because Wray is so fearlessly committed to his fictional world, and to his own depiction of it - James Wood, New Yorker

Illuminating . . . Extraordinary - Financial Times

Wray's storytelling is so taut, his psychology so audacious - JONATHAN FRANZEN, Guardian

A nervy drama of secrecy and desire . . . Fascinating - Observer

Illuminating . . . At a time when so many novelists are turning towards inner landscapes, Wray has undertaken a journey to the edge of the unimaginable - Michael LaPointe, Times Literary Supplement

Brilliantly executed . . . Wray's novel is on one hand an entirely familiar story of youthful rebellion and on the other an unimaginable depiction of a cold-blooded killer groomed by the world's most notorious army - Wall Street Journal

Laden with tension and suspense . . . A compelling adventure story - Irish Times

Wray writes with an elegant economy . . . Wray's understanding of the beauties and cruelties of religious faith is deeply impressive . . . This is a very fine novel indeed . . . Anybody who seeks to understand the world as it is today will find enlightenment here - Allan Massie, Scotsman

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