A fast-paced eco-thriller of thwarted water privatization.

A whirlwind fictional tour through the utopias of our modernity.

A sardonic reflection on the idealisms and absurdities of intellectual youth.

An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion.

Voracious capitalism meets provincialism in this blackly comic novel of love and money in 1970s England

“Altai is a great historical thriller and the prose has all the surface glitter of the Grand Canal or the Golden Horn.” – Edward Stourton, Financial Times

“You cannot read this novel, unless I lend it to you, as each of the copies Verso publish this month contain different iterations of the same text.” – Rhizome

A rich and teeming chronicle set in Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem