Name: My Friends
SKU: 63553890
Price: 539.00 TWD
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Author: Hisham Matar

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hisham Matar

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2025

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.7x12.9x2.9 cm

ISBN13

9780241987032

My Friends

Hisham Matar (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "My Friends"

Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.

Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.

Hisham Matar

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Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970, to Libyan parents, grew up in Tripoli and Cairo, and has spent most of his adult life in England. His debut, In the Country of Men (Salamandra, 2007), was translated into about thirty languages and won six major international literary awards. A success he repeated with his second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance (Salamandra, 2011). His third book, the autobiographical narrative The Return (Salamandra, 2017), won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Folio Prize. His latest work is A Month in Siena (Salamandra, 2022). A professor at Barnard College, Matar is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Art.

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