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My Friends
WINNER OF THE 2024 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION âą WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION âą FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD âą LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE âą One of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year âą A âmasterlyâ (The New York Times), ârivetingâ (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Return.
âQuite possibly Hisham Matar's best work yet. . . . Very few writers alive can converse with negative space the way Matar does, and My Friends is stunning, beautiful proof.â âOmar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prizeâwinning author of What Strange Paradise
The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and although nothing does, we continue, inside our dream.
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsâand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaâKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.
When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsâand fraysâthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.
âQuite possibly Hisham Matar's best work yet. . . . Very few writers alive can converse with negative space the way Matar does, and My Friends is stunning, beautiful proof.â âOmar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prizeâwinning author of What Strange Paradise
The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and although nothing does, we continue, inside our dream.
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsâand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaâKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.
When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsâand fraysâthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.
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WINNER OF THE 2024 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION âą WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION âą FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD âą LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE âą One of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year âą A âmasterlyâ (The New York Times), ârivetingâ (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Return.
âQuite possibly Hisham Matar's best work yet. . . . Very few writers alive can converse with negative space the way Matar does, and My Friends is stunning, beautiful proof.â âOmar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prizeâwinning author of What Strange Paradise
The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and although nothing does, we continue, inside our dream.
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsâand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaâKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.
When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsâand fraysâthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.
âQuite possibly Hisham Matar's best work yet. . . . Very few writers alive can converse with negative space the way Matar does, and My Friends is stunning, beautiful proof.â âOmar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prizeâwinning author of What Strange Paradise
The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and although nothing does, we continue, inside our dream.
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsâand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaâKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.
When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsâand fraysâthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.
