Three young people from vastly different backgrounds - Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo - are drawn together in a small Baltic city in 1989, just as the DDR begins to collapse around them.
While a quiet revolution sweeps through Eastern Europe, they find themselves in a poignant love triangle, as their lives intertwine and collide with each other in messy, beautiful ways.
"An expert novel, The Others is superbly organized, with a steady, tense air of suspense, fine and persuasive emotion, and, above all, truly rich characters alive in a real history. The last pages produced in me a gasp of amazement."- Jonathan Lethem, Author of 'Motherless Brooklyn', National Book Critics Circle Award winner
'Kalayil's deft prose is both precise and lyrical, vividly conjuring place, time and characters in flux.'- Joanna Nadin, Sunday Times no 1. bestselling author and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Bristol
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'I found it hard to put Sheena Kalayil's fourth novel down, so powerful is the untold story it tells. Yes, The Others is a love story, but it's also magnificently more; I loved the delicate intertwining themes of identity and displacement; setting and historical and political context are incredibly skilfully deployed; but there is also a rare and precious breadth of imagination in the novel. The writing is beautifully confident and flowing, and the characters and their journeys made me cry!'- Emma Henderson, Author of 'The Valentine House'
