A profound contemplation of human struggle ... remarkably impressive.
★★★★★
Daniel Baksi, The Independent / The Arts Desk

A completely absorbing, singular book. Night journey, border odyssey, angel’s-eye view of human striving.
Yasmine Seale

Mystical and illuminating.
Tony White

What a book - visionary, terrifying, remarkable use of language. London, Birmingham, Afghan borderland. Khaled Nurul Hakim is a writer you won't forget.
Tom Bolton

A true masterpiece ... an intricate exploration of sin, penance, and redemption.
Chris Cusack, Indie Recs

[Hakim] takes the small, the mundane, the petty, and sets it against a staggering backdrop. The Book of Naseeb is compulsive reading.
Joe Darlington, Manchester Review of Books

This is not merely the sacred slapped into electrified form by some cuss words. This is a piece of literature and its threads vanish into the hardback spine and back through to antiquity via modernism ... [Hakim] knows how to make a whole lineage of myth come alive with a single sign.
Steve Hanson, Manchester Review of Books