Matar, Hisham
My Friends: From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of THE RETURN
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241409480
- author:
- Matar, Hisham
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Viking
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 464
- Dimensions:
- 21.8 x 14 x 4.2 centimetres (0.5
- Genre:
- Health & Wellbeing, Family & Relationships, Friendship,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
A brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile. Khaled and Mustafa, two Libyan eighteen-year-olds, meet at university in Edinburgh and travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. Their lives are forever changed when government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, and they are bound together by their shared history. Over the years that follow, their friendship becomes small and inhospitable as they are forced to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind. This is a deeply moving exploration of how exile impacts those who are forced to live in a state of loss. With spare, beautiful prose, Hisham Matar weaves a complex and unsentimental meditation on what friendship means, and the profound impact it has on those who are forced to live with its absence.
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