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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE ***'Tense, lyrical, intelligent' - The Big Issue******A heart-wrenching human story - Saga***Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future...when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son's birth.Boston, 2017: When Hadi returns to his heavily pregnant partner Sama after a trip to Jordan to bury his father, he is stopped at border control - a hostile new immigration law has just been enacted - while she awaits him on the other side.Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist any more, or was it only an illusion?Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught up in forces beyond their control, fighting for the freedom and home they found in one another.

Me llamo Anna. Soy bailarina. Una auténtica soñadora. Creo en el amor y en que todos tenemos un propósito en la vida. Todavía me quedan muchos libros por leer, muchos lugares por visitar, canciones que bailar y velas de cumpleaños por soplar. Incluso muchos deseos que cumplir. Entonces ¿qué hago yo en este lugar? Al pasar por delante del número 17 de Swann Street no se advierte nada extraño. Ningún detalle en la fachada de color rosa melocotón sugiere que, en su interior, los teléfonos móviles son confiscados, los espejos están prohibidos, los cuartos de baño se cierran con llave y las residentes deben terminarse seis comidas diarias. Sin excepción. Existe otra regla fundamental en ese lugar,hay una palabra de ocho letras que no debe pronunciarse jamás: anorexia