In the Country of Men
$19.53
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2016
Summary
A heartbreaking, beautifully told classic set in the heart of Gaddafi’s Libya, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly the wider world becomes a frigh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241973622 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241973627 |
| Author: | Hisham Matar |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 111mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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About The Author
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He is the author of two novels, In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and a work of non-fiction, The Return. In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Critics Book Circle Award in the US and won six international literary awards. The Return won a Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Folio Prize and was shortlisted for many other awards including the Baillie Gifford Prize. Hisham Matar lives in London.
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