Asymmetry is a provocative next chapter of ‘The Great American Novel’, and the arrival of a supreme new talent.

This is a novel of three parts.  It begins with an affair between Alice and a much older man – the celebrated writer, Ezra Blazer.  It then shifts from this tale of literary New York to a small room at Heathrow Airport and the first person account of Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan.  While detained for a day in London, the young man remembers his life to date and considers his options for the future.  The asymmetrical third act returns to Ezra Blazer and his interview on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

As these narratives intersect and overlap, the initial love story transforms into a novel that makes entirely vivid all the imbalances and inequities of modern, global interconnected life.  A book of profound empathy, formal daring and political power, Asymmetry marks the arrival of an assured artist capable of beguiling and surprising on every page.