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“Hypnotic…a sophisticated meditation on politics, race and ethnicity. (…) Anyuru’s prose is incandescent.” —Peter Kimani, The New York Times Book Review
"An extraordinary life in exile inspires a multilayered novel. (...) A deeply moving meditation on identity and history, the personal and the political, blurring the boundaries between truth and fiction." —Kirkus Review

P’s greatest dream is to fly. He sets out to become a Ugandan fighter pilot, training in an academy in Greece. When the 1971 Idi Amin coup in his homeland disrupts his plans, he defects and becomes a man on the run. In this extraordinary novel based on his own father’s fate, Anyuru evokes P’s struggles in gorgeous, vivid prose. As a refugee, military-camp prisoner, and exile, P never gives up hope and continues to dream of life as a pilot. In a story told across two generations, P searches for identity and purpose in a world in which nowhere is home.

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JOHANNES ANYURU, the son of a Ugandan father and a Swedish mother, is a novelist and poet. A Storm Blew in from Paradise enjoyed immense success in Sweden and was awarded two major Swedish literature prizes Sold over 40,000 copies in Sweden, and many more copies sold worldwide Translation rights for his work have sold in 12 countries. US rights for his newest book The Rabbit Yard were sold to Two Lines Press Anyurus new book The Rabbit Yard will be published by Two Lines Press in 2019. A movie based on The Rabbit Yard is scheduled to premiere in 2019, so Anyuru will enjoy a moment. We will time our publication accordingly. The novel A Storm Blew in from Paradise is based on Anyurus own fathers fate The translator Rachel Willson-Broyles is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and will help promote the book Anyurus searingly poetic style rescues his writing from bleakness and sentimentality alike as he confronts the lies we live by. I dont want to escape history but life. I want the wind to have brought us out of nowhere and I wish we were on our way to another nowhere...That the homeland is a lie. That our homeland is... merely hours, seconds, instants, that there is no origin. The Independent, UK

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