The Year of the Runaways Nominiert: Dylan Thomas Prize, 2016, Nominiert: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2017, Nominiert: Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015. Winner of the Encore Award 2016 and South Bank Sky Arts Awards Literature Award 2016

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

A Washington Post and Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

Deeply affecting. . . . No recent novel does a more powerful job of capturing the day-to-day lives of . . . immigrants. The New York Times

Masterful. . . . Not only a timely book, but a gut-wrenching, emotionally honest one, as well. NPR
 
A major achievement. . . . Sahota is a clear-eyed, unflinching storyteller. The New Yorker

The Grapes of Wrath for the 21st century. . . . Sahota has captured the plight of millions of desperate people struggling to find work, to eke out some semblance of a decent life in a world increasingly closed-fisted and mean. The Washington Post
 
[A] sprawling, stunning novel. Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
Sahota s superb novel helps to make the reality of migrants a little less unimaginable and a little more human. The Wall Street Journal