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It is summer 2001 and Sami Traifi has escaped his fraying marriage and minimal job prospects to visit Damascus. In search of his roots and himself, he instead finds a forgotten uncle in a gloomy back room, and an ugly secret about his beloved father...

Returning to London, Sami finds even more to test him as his young wife Muntaha reveals that she is taking up the hijab. Sami embarks on a wilfully ragged journey in the opposite direction, away from religion – but towards what?

As Sami struggles to understand Muntaha’s newly-deepened faith, her brother Ammar’s hip hop Islamism and his father-in-law’s need to see grandchildren, so his emotional and spiritual unraveling begins to accelerate. And the more he rebels, the closer he comes to betraying those he loves, edging ever-nearer to the brink of losing everything...

Set against a powerfully-evoked backdrop of multi-ethnic, multi-faith London, The Road from Damascus explores themes as big as love, faith and hope, and as fundamental as our need to believe in something bigger than ourselves, whatever that might be.

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'A novel so packed with ideas it threatens at times to explode ... One of the author's gifts, and he has many, is to give us characters, who, even at their most wilfully one-dimensional, are believable and, at times, funny' Independent 'A fantastically enjoyable, wise and intelligent novel that grows in the telling and should cause the most feted of literary stars to sit up and take notice' Big Issue 'A rambunctious and daring novel, with scattered comedy amid the drama' Metro
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'Wonderful, witty, very original' Independent

Love, religion and revolution in summer, 2001 . . .

Second-generation Londoner Sami Traifi's life is in turmoil. Unsure where it went wrong - or how to put it right - he makes a brief trip to visit relatives in Damascus. But there - courtesy of a nasty family secret - things only seem to get worse.

Back home in London, the non-believer Sami must face up to his fraying marriage, his wife's decision to wear the hijab and her brother's hip-hop Islamism. And these are the least of his problems. He wants to be a good British citizen - but he's not sure what that means anymore. While the police's idea of one is certainly not his. He must ask himself: what will I do in the name of belief? And what won't I do? What do I love most?

The Road from Damascus is a brave, funny and exhilarating contemporary novel that asks questions about the choices we make and ponders how those choices not only affect us but those we love the most.

'Outstanding, fantastically enjoyable, wise and intelligent . . . reminds us how rich a good book can be' Big Issue

'Extraordinary' Sunday Telegraph

'Written with verve, imagination, intelligence . . . remarkable' Scotsman

'An eye-opener, richly evocative' Daily Mail

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  • PublisherHamish Hamilton
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0241144094
  • ISBN 13 9780241144091
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages368
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