The World and All That It Holds (2023)

Rafael Pinto's life is pulled from a Sarajevo pharmacy in 1914 through war and displacement as far as Shanghai. His love for Osman, and the words and memories attached to it, becomes something portable when countries and households cannot be kept. Hemon's long journey is sensual, linguistically exuberant and devastating. Read it for the stubborn making of human ties amid repeated uprooting, with graphic violence, grief and opium use along the route.