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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books’ Guardian

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

‘Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope – all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages’ Observer

‘There is magic in this place … You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you’

Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho.

The future, and humanity’s last hope. Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.

‘Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing’ Financial Times

‘Sets him comfortably alongside Tolkien, Rowling and David Mitchell … a joy to read.

Serious novels are rarely this fun’ The Times ‘This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read’ Daily Mirror