Nathacha Appanah

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction

"A novel of exceptional emotional force" John Self, Guardian****A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023*** It's not only grief and loneliness that have tormented Tara since her husband's death. In her, so...

• Jan-2022
• / General Fiction

A propulsive, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured family and the persistence of hopeIt all begins with a crash. One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother’s car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ...

• May-2020
• / Literary

A potent novel about lost youth and migration by the author of The Last Brother and Waiting for TomorrowMarie, a nurse in Mayotte, a far-flung, tropical department of France in the Indian Ocean, adopts a baby abandoned at birth by his mother, a refug...

• Apr-2018
• / Literary

A powerful examination of the artistic impulse, cultural identity, and family bondsAnita is waiting for Adam to be released from prison. They met twenty years ago at a New Year’s Eve party in Paris, a city where they both felt out of place -- he ...

• Feb-2011
• / Literary

In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a daily struggle for his f...

• Jun-2009
• / Women's Fiction

Exposing the extremes of life in a developing country, this compelling novel of doomed love shows how poverty, class divisions, and ramshackle housing become even harder to bear when luxurious resorts and rich tourists ...