About the Book: Born in Palestine before the 1948 Nakba forces his family to flee their home, Sufien spends the rest of his life in search of belonging-finding love in Kuwait, solace in an Italian university town, and purpose in New York, where he falls for a Jewish woman from a different world. Eventually he returns to a desert echoing his lost home. A sweeping, lyrical novel of exile, grief, and a life fully lived, Paradiso 17 has earned wide critical acclaim and a Women’s Prize longlisting for its haunting, tender storytelling.