This is a beautiful novel, written by a once hurt child and loved and deeply admired by another, me. So says a wise ghost in Danny Ramadan's sweeping and mesmerising story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly. They haven't learned yet how to handle pain". '"Treat your thoughts like hurt children. As Hussam and Wassim come to terms with the past, they begin to realise the secret that haunts them is not the only secret that formed them. Split between war-torn Damascus and Vancouver, The Foghorn Echoes is a tragic love story about coping with shared traumatic experience and devastating separation. Meanwhile Hussam, now on the other side of the world, remains haunted by his own ghosts, doing his utmost to drown them out with every vice imaginable. Wassim is on the streets, seeking shelter from both the city and the civil war storming his country. Wassim promises Hussam his protection, but ten years into the future, he has failed to keep his promise. Rights by Ruth Comerford Danny Ramadan Canongate has signed The Foghorn Echoes, an 'emotionally powerful' second novel from Danny Ramadan. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. Masterfully crafted and richly detailed, The Foghorn Echoes is a gripping novel about how to carve out home in the midst of war, and how to move forward when the war is within yourself.A devastating novel about broken relationships, the promises we're unable to keep and living with the ghosts of your past. The past continues to reverberate through the present as Hussam and Wassim come face to face with heartache, history, drag queens, border guards, and ghosts both literal and figurative. Taking shelter in a deserted villa, he unearths the previous owner’s buried secrets while reckoning with his own. Wassim is living on the streets of Damascus, having abandoned a wife and child and a charade he could no longer keep up. Sponsored as a refugee by a controlling older man, Hussam is living an openly gay life in Vancouver, where he attempts to quiet his demons with sex, drugs, and alcohol. Ten years later, Hussam and Wassim are still struggling to find peace and belonging. In an instant, the course of their lives is changed forever. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. "A sweeping and mesmerizing story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly." -Alan CummingĪ deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives.
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