'I LOVED, ADMIRED AND ENVIED THIS NOVEL, IT'S A WONDER' ZADIE SMITH 'SPELLBINDING' NEW YORKER 'THRILLING' GUARDIAN In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.