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MY FRIENDS - HISHAM MATAR KARTONIERT (TB)

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024   WINNER OF
THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION    An intensely moving novel about three friends living
in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the
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.   'The first Booker contender of 2024 . . . a deeply touching  beautifully
composed book' Sunday Times    'It makes clear  once more  that Hisham Matar is a supremely
talented novelist.' COLM TOIBIN    'I have always admired Matar's tender and compassionate but
equally strong and compelling voice' ELIF SHAFAK    'It is impossible to describe the profound
depth and beauty of this book' MAAZA MENGISTE  author of THE SHADOW KING   'My Friends is both
a complex and unsentimental meditation on what friendship means and a searingly moving
exploration of how exile impacts those who are forced to live in this state of loss. It is a
book that we loved for its spareness of language and its deeply affecting storytelling.' Booker
Prize Judges 2024

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