Homeseeking

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escapist
exile
family
first love
global literature
hardship
historical novel
Hong Kong
immigration
lovers reunited
Maggie O'Farrell
Materialists
Min Jin Lee
Pachinko
past lives
second chance romance
Second World War
Shanghai
Taiwan
Tan Twan Eng
The Covenant of Water
The Distance Between Us
The Garden of Evening Mists
trauma
World War II

Product details

  • ISBN 9781399718394
  • Weight: 358g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jan 2026
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'What a beautiful love story'
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'Stunning piece of writing! Don't miss it'

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'Hard to put it down'
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'Deeply moving'
Abi Daré

'Weaves expertly between present and past'

Celeste Ng

'Unforgettable'

Washington Post

'Mesmerising'
Harper's Bazaar

Suchi first sees Haiwen in their Shanghai neighbourhood when she is seven years old, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossoms into love, but when Haiwen secretly enlists in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, Suchi is left with just his violin and a note: Forgive Me.

Sixty years later, recently widowed Haiwen spots Suchi at a grocery store in Los Angeles. It feels to Haiwen like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back. In the twilight of their lives, can they reclaim their past and the love they lost?

Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history, telling Haiwen's story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi's from her childhood to the present, meeting at the crucible of their lives. From Shanghai to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States, neither loses sight of the home they hold in their hearts.

'A love story in more ways than one'
Vanessa Chan

Karissa Chen is a writer who splits her time between New Jersey and Taipei, Taiwan. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Bon Appetit, Eater, The Cut, NBC News, Catapult, Gulf Coast, PEN America, and Guernica, among others. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan in 2015-2016 and was awarded a 2019 artist fellowship from the NJ Council on the Arts. She was formerly the Senior Fiction Editor at The Rumpus and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Hyphen magazine. She received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College.

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