Hard by a Great Forest

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'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER
'I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINI

Saba's 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 anima ...