‘A vital, powerful read, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is an absorbing, multi-faceted, acutely hopeful novel’ - Patrick deWitt, author of THE SISTER, BROTHERS, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

‘A great wrenching beautiful book’ - Laline Paul, author of THE BEES, shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Fiction

‘A raw and rare talent . . . a symphony of a novel. In the contemporary tradition of Aleksandar Hemon and Philipp Meyer, with echoes of Michael Ondaatje and Arundhati Roy, Yapa strides forward with a literary Molotov cocktail to light up the dark’ - Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

‘A stunningly orchestrated work of narrative power. This novel marshals all the vital forces of our existence – from the domestic to the political – and offers them to the reader with equal doses of compassion and beauty’ - Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names

‘Its heart beats and bleeds on every page . . . This book is delightfully, forcefully alive, and I feel more alive for having read it’ - Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints

‘A full-throated chorus of voices on all sides . . . Sunil Yapa has achieved something special, a story that is as tragic as it is relevant, as unflinching as it is humane. Watch out’ - Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek