SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif KureishiFor Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each fading memory brings back the friends she made in her bittersweet life⁠—friends who are now desperately trying to find her . . .