We Move

Reviews / Votes

A debut collection of such precocity and aplomb that it stands comparison to the likes of Junot Diaz and Bryan Washington. A collection to celebrate, from a new talent of the kind that comes along rarely -- John Self * Observer * The stories in this wonderful collection are fresh, immediate and poignant -- Colin Barrett * Irish Independent * Gurnaik Johal's virtuosic debut collection brings fresh ingredients to the future of Indian writing -- Sana Goyal * Guardian * Conversational, brimful of beautifully observed descriptions of the sights and sounds of this world * Daily Mail * A stunning collection * Evening Standard * These are excellent stories, told with skill and verve. Gurnaik Johal has a sharp eye for details, an ear for the gaps and evasions in real dialogue, and a heart for the hopes and regrets that carry us through our lives. But most of all, he has the instincts of a storyteller, and in We Move he has put those instincts to great effect' -- Jon McGregor Moving, truthful, straight from the heart (and a very capacious heart too), the stories in We Move announce the arrival of a promising young writer we will be talking about for years to come -- Neel Mukherjee An assured and profoundly humane collection, rich in character and story. Johal relocates the human comedy to contemporary Southall and weaves in threads from the past and far across the world -- Jo Lloyd, author of The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies A whole universe of lives intricately connected and woven together in a way that is wholly surprising and unobvious -- Huma Qureshi, author of Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love Deft and defiant. These stories are told with real heart and dazzling speed -- John Patrick McHugh, author of Pure Gold With this beautiful, kaleidoscopic, moving, staggeringly full-of-life debut collection of stories, Gurnaik Johal has catapulted himself into the front rank of the chroniclers of the country we live in. You don't know Britain until you've read We Move -- Rahul Raina, author of How to Kidnap the Rich Delicate, controlled and moving portraits of the strange, poignant dislocation wrought by both distance and proximity -- Colin Barrett