- Published: 3 October 2023
- ISBN: 9781529115123
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
Other Names for Love
‘Exceptional’ Sunjeev Sahota
- Published: 3 October 2023
- ISBN: 9781529115123
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
A twenty-first century variation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons... Taymour Soomro is a thrilling new addition to international literature
YIYUN LI, author of Must I Go
This haunted, haunting novel is about the cruelties we commit in our search for freedom and the bonds from which we can never be free. Taymour Soomro's piercing insight is that both the freedom and the bonds are constituent of love
Garth Greenwell, author of CLEANNESS and WHAT BELONGS TO YOU
An exceptional novel about fathers and sons, desire and love, and the long reach of the past
SUNJEEV SAHOTA, author of China Room
A powerful, moving novel and an impressive debut
MOHSIN HAMID, author of Exit West
Spell-binding, like a song overheard in the night, one you follow like a map to the singer. Other Names For Love feels both new and ancient... A masterful debut
ALEXANDER CHEE, author of Queen of the Night
An elegant and affecting story about love... Other Names for Love probes the mystery of who we are by looking at the places (our homelands and wherever we flee to) and people (our parents and lovers) that forge us
RUMAAN ALAM, author of Leave the World Behind
Such a deftly told and evocative story of duty, masculinity and desire
KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of Home Fire
A beautiful novel on the desire to leave and the hope to remain, the need to find oneself among one's people and away from them
HISHAM MATAR, author of The Return
A compact book bursting with emotion, it leaves you eager for whatever this already vastly accomplished author will do next
Daily Mail
[Soomro's] insights - into class, power, masculinity, desire, shame and filial duty - are fresh and nuanced... [he] is thrillingly attuned to the hum and growl of his characters' moods... Other Names for Love announces an author of great promise
Times Literary Supplement
Written in rich, measured prose, Other Names for Love is a novel about dynasties, desire, generational divides and the long reach of the past
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[An] elegant and entrancing novel
Economist