Contemporary, mystical, timeless. . .
The Foghorn Echoes gives me a similar feeling to that which I had with
The Kite Runner, of characters haunted by love and hunted by loss, across oceans, timelines and warzones. The story is so specific, yet it speaks of
all love. When I finished
The Foghorn Echoes, I felt that I had read a fiction which was unquestionably, undeniably true. -- LEMN SISSAY author of My Name is Why and Gold from the Stone
The Foghorn Echoes is a deeply moving book about conflict both internal and external, the ways in which cold accidents-of birth, of place, of time-can leave a human being at war with their own desires, their own sense of self. Danny Ramadan is a gifted, sensitive excavator of the things that break people and put them back together, the past as weight and lightness. In this novel he has created a world of immense sensory and emotional precision, at once true in its living details and yet electric with the presence of ghosts. -- OMAR EL AKKAD author of What Strange Paradise and American War
I've read many stories about love and war. Few have moved me this much.
The Foghorn Echoes is marvellous: subtle but dramatic, tender but urgent, and beautifully written. I'll be thinking about it for a very long time. -- DINA NAYERI author of The Ungrateful Refugee
Praise for Danny Ramadan: There are moments and scenes of intense clarity and poignancy that will stop readers in their tracks -
* Irish Times *A remarkable read. Danny Ramadan opens a world for his readers and guides them through it with sensitivity and suspense -- BERNHARD SCHLINK -
* New York Times bestselling author of The Reader *Studded with the kind of graceful poetry that makes the most hardened heart soar like a silktail . . . Ramadan has gifted his readers with a resistance manifesto coded with love -- DIRIYE OSMAN
A complex portrait of placelessness -
* Times Literary Supplement *By turns sombre, fantastical, violent and tender, Ahmad Danny Ramadan's English-language debut is a gay son's conflicted love letter to Syria -- Globe and Mail --This text refers to an alternate
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About the Author
DANNY RAMADAN (he/him) is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees. His debut novel,
The Clothesline Swing, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, longlisted for
Canada Reads, and named a Best Book of the Year by
The Globe and Mail and
Toronto Star. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and currently lives in Vancouver with his husband.
--This text refers to an alternate
kindle_edition edition.