My Friends by Hisham Matar Paperback Book 9780241987032

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONFROM THE PULITZERPRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE RETURNA brilliant novel about innocence and experience about friendship family and exile COLM TOIBINKhaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh two Libyan eighteenyearolds 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 changedOver 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 behindThe first Booker contender of 2024 a deeply touching beautifully composed book Sunday TimesIt is impossible to describe the profound depth and beauty of this book MAAZA MENGISTE author of THE SHADOW KINGMy Friends is both a complex and...