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My Friends

✍ Scribed by Hisham Matar

Book ID: 112249923
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Weight: 188 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780812994841

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✦ Synopsis

A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize -nominated and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return
" 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."--Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words--and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa--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 miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest...

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