How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? When Rami and Bassam meet, and tell one another the story of their grief, the most unexpected thing of all happens: they become best of friends.

And their stories become one story, a story with the power to heal – and the power to change the world. 

‘The book goes anywhere and everywhere. It is a delirious and thrilling improvisation, a jazz solo spun out of that meeting … A spectacular structure of stories about everything’ Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

‘A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift’ Elizabeth Strout

‘An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change’ New York Times Book Review

‘A quite extraordinary novel’ Kamila Shamsie