Hard by a Great ForestAN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 A spellbinding achievement FINANCIAL TIMES Poignant and often painfully comic OBSERVER I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it KHALED HOSSEINI Sabas father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia. Arriving in a city he has not seen for more than two decades, where escaped zoo animals prowl the streets and the voices of those left