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Rafiq Kermanj slips out of Tehran under darkness with Xezal and their three children. In London he wants to build a future for them but is frozen by grief for what is gone. The children grow up and scatter around the time of the 2008 crash. Mohammed, the eldest, plunges into the ruthless City; Siver, the daughter, vanishes into a bad marriage in Baghdad; Laika, the youngest, retreats into the internet and, from a model apartment near Wall Street, writes trading code in an effort to beat the market. Part family saga and part portrait of global money, the book follows their ever more frantic efforts to escape the narrow futures handed to them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

429 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iran, United Kingdom, Iraq, United States

First published

2024 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789100800048 (original)

9781784745240 (Chatto & Windus, United Kingdom)

9781529931945 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9781566897471 (Coffee House Press, United States)