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A masterful, intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN.
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in 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.
A masterful, intensely moving novel about three friends living in
political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships
can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning
author of THE RETURN 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. 'I have always admired Matar's tender and
compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice' Elif Shafak
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My Friends - A Novel
Hisham Matar
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he’d had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments.
Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer’s life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape—current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude—and shed further light on the present world around us.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE RATHBONES
FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR
NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED
FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY WINNER
OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW
YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 The Return is at once a universal
and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on
how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And
yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past,
but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of
what it is to be human. Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father
was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him
again. Twenty-two years later, the fall of Gaddafi meant he was
finally able to return to his homeland. In this moving memoir, the
author takes us on an illuminating journey, both physical and
psychological; a journey to find his father and rediscover his
country. 'A beautifully-written memoir that skillfully balances a
graceful guide through Libya's recent history with the author's
dogged quest to find his father' Barack Obama
In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman
his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his
father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But when
his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he
and Mona search desperately for the man they both love. Only for
Nuri to discover a silence he cannot break and unimaginable secrets
his father never wanted him to know.
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond
the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the
loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when
his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father,
standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly
the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and
questions go unanswered. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under
the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her
childhood.
Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First
Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first
time. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world
beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond
the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house
when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father,
standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly
the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and
questions go unanswered. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under
the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her
childhood.
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