This novel annihilated me. I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more. --Khaled Hosseini, #1 Blows open the heart of the past. It''s a mystery, it''s a picaresque, it''s a comedy, and it''s an authentic song of belonging and unbelonging. Tender and raw and funny. --Colum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Saba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for asylum in England. Two decades later, all three men are struggling to make peace with the past, haunted by the places and people they left behind.When Irakli decides to return to Georgia, pulled back by memories of a lost wife and a decaying but still beautiful homeland, Saba and Sandro wait eagerly for news. But within weeks of his arrival, Irakli disappears, and the final message they receive from him causes a mystery to unfold before them: