'Supplication is as visceral and gripping as an actual nightmare, but also teeming with wisdom about selfhood and trauma.'
– Ainslie Hogarth, author of Motherthing
'A highly sophisticated philosophical exploration of identity propelled by a surreal sense of the interconnectedness of random events.
– Kerry Hadley-Pryce, author of God's Country
'There, within the suddenness of the unending present, I was born.'
An unnamed narrator comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, a man looming over her. Someone has a knife.
She emerges from her captivity into a mysterious and nightmarish city, searching for meaning in her new reality.
As figures emerge from the night, some offering sanctuary, and others judgement, she moves through a fever-dream narrative of alienation, fear, and the quest for respite.
Nour Abi-Nakhoul's powerful debut novel, Supplication, is a hallucinatory literary horror set deep in the consciousness of a woman exploring a changed and frightening world.