Godsend

by JohnWray (Author)

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Hardcover
2019
$14.80

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.

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 24 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1782119620
ISBN 13: 9781782119623

Media Reviews

John Wray is making a place for himself among our greatest living writers. Godsend is a wonder to me: a fearless book about a terrifying subject. The elegance and daring of this novel left me dizzy -- AKHIL SHARMA, author of FAMILY LIFE
This is a great book about a time and a place that I lived through. I was nostalgic, reading Godsend, for the days when I was a young girl in Afghanistan, going to the madrasa with my friends. This came as a surprise to me. But there was beauty in that life. And there is beauty in this story -- SHAMILA KOHESTANI, recipient of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award
PRAISE FOR JOHN WRAY: One of our most astonishing and relevant young writers * * Esquire * *
For a while now, John Wray has been writing as if let in on the secret history of the world, paying attention to moments we all know, but at the point we've stopped looking . . . This is literature as high-wire act without the net; epic in scale, even bigger in heart -- MARLON JAMES
John Wray is a daring young writer * * New Yorker * *
John Wray is the next wave of American fiction -- Jonathan Lethem
America's most original young writer -- Gary Shteyngart * * author of Absurdistan * *
[The Lost Time Accidents is] a science fiction novel about time-travel, filled with unabashedly zany characters . . . a highly enjoyable book * * Sunday Times * *
Startlingly accomplished * * Daily Telegraph * *
John Wray gets his Calvino on, his Mitchell on, his Murakami on, and even his Joyce on in this spectacular rattlebag of a novel . . . Who says the novel is dead? Just smash the clocks and open this novel -- Colum McCann

Author Bio

John Wray is the author of five novels, including The Lost Time Accidents and Lowboy. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, and has been named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A citizen of both the United States and Austria, he lives in New York City. @John_Wray | johnwray.net