This exciting literary debut from a prodigious young talent introduces an unlikely hero who'll prove impossible to forget... Selim's first view of Europe is a vast, thick carpet of digested pasta. Swimming through sewage towards traffickers on the Italian shore, he parts Europe's defences with his bony chest before collapsing on the sand. Waiting for him is a truck, officially loaded with crates of tomatoes: the sunny taste of Italy. Unofficially, the truck is loaded with Selim and his fellow refugees: the sunny taste of Kurdistan.