«[A] sweeping and mesmerising story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly. This is a beautiful novel, written by a once hurt child and loved and deeply admired by another, me»

ALAN CUMMING

«Powerful and compassionate»

Lucy Popescu, * The Observer *

«The Foghorn Echoes is, fundamentally, an epic: the story of two men, two cities, and between them, love and a war»

* Guernica *

«Hussam and Wassim will live on in your heart long after the last page. A story of a country torn apart by war and hearts broken by wars within»

DAMIAN BARR

«I've read many stories about love and war. Few have moved me this much. The Foghorn Echoes is marvellous: subtle but dramatic, tender but urgent, and beautifully written. I'll be thinking about it for a very long time»

DINA NAYERI

«The Foghorn Echoes bristles. It burns bright . . . This novel is a tender and impassioned love story for a country, for a people, and for all those who refuse to disappear quietly into the land of the forgotten»

MAAZA MENGISTE

«Contemporary, mystical, timeless . . . The story is so specific, yet it speaks of all love. When I finished The Foghorn Echoes, I felt that I had read a fiction which was unquestionably, undeniably true»

LEMN SISSAY

«A deeply moving book about conflict both internal and external, the ways in which cold accidents - of birth, of place, of time - can leave a human being at war with their own desires, their own sense of self. Danny Ramadan is a gifted, sensitive excavator of the things that break people and put them back together . . . he has created a world of immense sensory and emotional precision, at once true in its living details and yet electric with the presence of ghosts»

OMAR EL AKKAD

«A heartfelt, compelling tale that should be added on bookshelves everywhere»

ELIAS JAHSHAN

«Protest, civil war and refugee politics hum in the novel's background, but they are not its heartbeat. Instead, Ramadan focuses on love, loss and identity amidst the ruins»

* NB Magazine *