My Friends
WINNER OF THE 2024 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • One of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year • A “masterly” (The New York Times), “riveting” (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return.
“Quite possibly Hisham Matar's best work yet. . . . Very few writers alive can converse with negative space the way Matar does, and My Friends is stunning, beautiful proof.” —Omar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of What Strange Paradise
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…
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January 7, 2025
Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York.
My Friends
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