Voices of the Lost

“The tragedies in Voices of the Lost are agonizing . . . [a] searing prizewinner.”—Madeleine Thien, The Guardian

“Voices of the Lost belongs with the most exemplary fiction of our contemporary diasporas, striving to match the new tragedy with a new form.”—John Domini, Brooklyn Rail

“Spare and deep, Voices of the Lost captivates. Hoda Barakat is one of Lebanon’s greatest gifts to literature, and Booth allows her English audience to explore this painful and irresistible present.”—Amy Bloom, author of White Houses

“Marilyn Booth effortlessly captures the ache, incomprehension, and longing in Hoda Barakat’s spare and luminous prose. Barakat is without doubt one of the most important and gifted novelists writing today—as a translator, Booth is every bit her equal.”—Shawkat M. Toorawa, translator of Adonis: A Time Between Ashes and Roses

“Drawing on the power of testimonial, Hoda Barakat’s characters relate tales of loss, regret, and displacement. Beautifully written and filled with a raw, audacious honesty, these lost and found letters draw readers into an extraordinary embrace and refuse to let go.”—Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Birds of Paradise

“Hoda Barakat is one of the most versatile and innovative novelists in the Arab world. Here, in a fugue of undelivered letters, she etches the portraits of a series of existential refugees, lost between countries, languages, and lives.”—Marilyn Hacker, author of Blazons

“A subversive novel that examines sorrow, longing, violence, kindness, and compassion. The places may be named, but the protagonists are nameless. We love them because they are us.”—Fady Joudah, author of Tethered to Stars