The Others

<p><span>Secrets lies and love as the DDR collapses. </span></p><p></p><p>It is 1989 and in a small Baltic city in East Germany the Deutsche Demokratische Republik three young people from vastly different backgrounds become friends. Armando is a factory worker from Mozambique Lolita is a medical student from India and Theo is an East Berliner who dreams of being a writer.</p><p></p><p>When Armando and Lolita make a grisly discovery they find themselves caught up in the politics of Theo's homeland more than ever before. While a quiet revolution sweeps through Eastern Europe and the Berlin Wall teeters the three find themselves entangled in a poignant love triangle which threatens their futures.</p><p></p><p>As the world order shifts their three lives are bound together in a web of love lies and fears leaving each irrevocably changed.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Praise for Sheena Kalayil:</u></strong></p><p> </p><p></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p></p><p>- Jonathan Lethem Author of 'Motherless Brooklyn' National Book Critics Circle Award winner </p><p></p><p></p><p><em>'Kalayil's deft prose is both precise and lyrical vividly conjuring place time and characters in flux.'</em></p><p></p><p>- Joanna Nadin Sunday Times no 1. bestselling author and Professor of Creative Writing University of Bristol</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>'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!'</em></p><p></p><p>- Emma Henderson Author of 'The Valentine House'</p>