Hard by a Great Forest
Penguin Publishing Group
ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE 2024NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024 The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement. —The Financial Times“Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of literature from Europe’s war-torn corners.” —Los Angeles Times This novel annihilated me.... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more. —Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner “Tender and raw and funny.” —Colum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Let the Great World Spin Propulsive, funny, and profound. —Elif Batuman, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Idiot “A book like no other, from an imagination like no other.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less Is LostAmid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one...
