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MY FRIENDS - HISHAM MATAR KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION'The first Booker contender of 2024... a
deeply touching  beautifully composed book' Sunday TimesAn 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. 'MY FRIENDS is a brilliant novel about innocence and experience 
about friendship  family and exile. 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. MY FRIENDS is a breathtaking novel  every page a miracle and an
affirmation. Hisham is one of our greatest writers  how lucky we are to be in his midst.' MAAZA
MENGISTE  author of THE SHADOW KING

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