Join Kamila Shamsie, a finalist for the Oranze Prize and selected as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, for an event to honor her epic novel A God in Every Stone, the first print title to be released by the recently launched Atavist Books. Opening in 1914 on the eve of the First World War in modern-day Turkey and ending in 1947 in Peshawar, Pakistan, A God in Every Stone traces the complexities of empires both ancient and modern. Ali Smith calls it "beautiful, terrible, true . . . It already reads like a classic." Shamsie will be joined by fellow Atavist-published author Hari Kunzru.

Atavist Books was founded by publisher Frances Coady, IAC’s Barry Diller, and producer Scott Rudin, and launched in March 2014 with Sleep Donation, a digital-only novella by New York Times bestselling author Karen Russell. 

KAMILA SHAMSIE is the author of five novels: In the City by the Sea, Kartography, Salt and Saffron, Broken Verses, and Burnt Shadows. She lives in London.

HARI KUNZRU was named one of Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists” in 2003. He is the author of four novels,The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, and Gods Without Men. Twice Upon A Time, a digital, interactive novel in which Kunzru recalls his experience of New York as a new arrival, a blind musician and composer his guide, was released by Atavist Books earlier this year.

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