Nothing Belongs to You

Refusing to take the easy way out, the writer avoids the traps of pathos or of pity. Nathacha Appanah is one of our most singular novelists

Nothing Belongs to You is a physical novel - its sentences grab you by the throat, devour you, haunt you. The prose is magnificent because from its shadows and its ghosts, a light emerges, despite everything. A tour de force

Nathacha Appanah has penned an unsettling novel, full of imaginative, dizzying and hypnotic prose

A wonderful return to Nathacha Appanah's sensual and committed writing on the condition of women and the state of the world

A deeply moving book of rare literary power

A novel of exceptional emotional force