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Longlisted for both the Asian Man Booker Prize and for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), this novel tells the story of a young Kurdish woman in London trying to come to terms with the murder committed by her brother. The protagonist recounts the histories of her family stretching back three generations to her grandmother and the births of her mother and aunt in a Kurdish village on the borders of Turkey and Syria. Moving back and forth in place and time, from the 1940's to the 1990's, from east to west, an honour killing is placed at the cross-cultural centre of this novel, which blends eastern and western styles of story telling and engages fluidly with conventions of magical realism to explore a topic of pronounced contemporary relevance.