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Matar, Hisham, 1970-
Subjects
Libyans -- Fiction.
College students -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Demonstrations -- Fiction.
Arab Spring, 2010- -- Fiction.
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Matar, Hisham, 1970-
Libyans -- Fiction.
College students -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Demonstrations -- Fiction.
Arab Spring, 2010- -- Fiction.
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My friends : a novel / Hisham Matar.
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Matar, Hisham, 1970-
Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada, 2024.
Call #:
FICTION
MAT
Subjects
Libyans
--
Fiction
.
College students
--
Fiction
.
Authors
--
Fiction
.
Demonstrations
--
Fiction
.
Arab Spring, 2010-
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780735247161 (hc.)
Description:
398 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"A young man leaves behind more than he realizes to follow his passions in this major, luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return. 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 and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words
--
and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa
--
Khaled 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 light years 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 in tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, an exile, unable to leave England. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would mark them for death. When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face to face with Hosam Zawa, 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 tests
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and frays
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those bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers"
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Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Holds:
6
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Adult Fiction
FICTION MAT
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Jul 19, 2024
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FICTION MAT
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Jul 08, 2024
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Jul 24, 2024
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