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Inspired by ´American Taliban´ John Walker Lindh, this compelling novel from the award-winning author tells the story of a young girl leaving her home, family and country for radical Islam

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In California her name was Aden Grace Sawyer. In Pakistan she must choose a different name - Suleyman - and take on a new identity as a young man. She has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she´ll travel further to protect her secret.

But once she is on the ground, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have dreamed. Faced with violence and loss, she must make intense and unimaginable choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is.

Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a subtle masterpiece of empathy: a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go from home to find a place to belong.

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Frequently mesmerising . . . This is a significant literary performance Dwight Garner New York Times

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Wray, John
John Wray is the author of The Right Hand of Sleep, which won a Whiting Writers´ Award, the critically-acclaimed Lowboy, and Canaan´s Tongue. He was chosen as one of Granta´s Best Young American Novelists in 2007. Born in 1971, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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