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Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE • The intimate, sweeping tale of one Palestinian man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope

"With stunning intimacy, Hannah Lillith Assadi has crafted an unforgettable story about the many stunted afterlives of hyphenated belonging. In this book live some of the most complex characters I’ve read in a long time, and a deeply nuanced exploration of exile as both event and inheritance.” —Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

"Suffused with tenderness." —The New York Times

Sufien has spent his whole life carrying exile like a shadow. Uprooted from Palestine as a child in the wake of the 1948 Nakba, he drifts from Kuwait to Italy to New York, chasing a sense of home that keeps receding just out of reach.

Hannah Lillith Assadi’s third novel follows Sufien across continents and decades, weaving myth, memory, and the quiet accumulation of a life lived in motion. Its structure moves fluidly between past and present, letting grief and love coexist on the same page.

At its center is a question that outlasts any one country: what does it mean to belong somewhere when the place you were born no longer exists as you knew it? Sufien’s search for love, work, and family becomes a search for a self that can hold all of his displaced selves at once.

Inspired by the life of Assadi’s own father, Paradiso 17 turns one man’s restlessness into a meditation on inheritance — what exile passes down, and what somehow survives it.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE • The intimate, sweeping tale of one Palestinian man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope

"With stunning intimacy, Hannah Lillith Assadi has crafted an unforgettable story about the many stunted afterlives of hyphenated belonging. In this book live some of the most complex characters I’ve read in a long time, and a deeply nuanced exploration of exile as both event and inheritance.” —Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

"Suffused with tenderness." —The New York Times

Sufien has spent his whole life carrying exile like a shadow. Uprooted from Palestine as a child in the wake of the 1948 Nakba, he drifts from Kuwait to Italy to New York, chasing a sense of home that keeps receding just out of reach.

Hannah Lillith Assadi’s third novel follows Sufien across continents and decades, weaving myth, memory, and the quiet accumulation of a life lived in motion. Its structure moves fluidly between past and present, letting grief and love coexist on the same page.

At its center is a question that outlasts any one country: what does it mean to belong somewhere when the place you were born no longer exists as you knew it? Sufien’s search for love, work, and family becomes a search for a self that can hold all of his displaced selves at once.

Inspired by the life of Assadi’s own father, Paradiso 17 turns one man’s restlessness into a meditation on inheritance — what exile passes down, and what somehow survives it.

  • Publisher: Knopf (Penguin Random House)

    Title: Paradiso 17

    Author: Hannah Lillith Assadi

    On Sale Date: March 17, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9780593804056

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $29.00

    Page Count: 320

  • Hannah Lillith Assadi is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree who teaches fiction at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. Her debut novel, Sonora, won the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her second, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and NPR. Raised in Arizona, she now lives in Brooklyn.

  • Critics are calling it lyrical, miraculous, gripping:

    • “Suffused with tenderness.” —The New York Times

    • “A sweeping, deeply personal novel based on the life of Assadi’s father.” —Kirkus Reviews

    • “Assadi is a gorgeous writer.” —Justin Torres

    • “Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit.” —Maaza Mengiste

This book is for you if

  • You’re drawn to novels that move fluidly across decades and continents rather than following a single timeline.

  • You want a story about exile and displacement that centers tenderness as much as loss.

  • You appreciate prose that leans lyrical without losing its narrative pull.

  • You’re interested in fiction inspired by real family history, especially stories of the Palestinian diaspora.

  • You’re looking for a novel substantial enough to sit with after you’ve finished it.

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