My friends

Hisham Matar

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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.


Author(s): Matar, Hisham
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 09/01/2025
Pagination: 457 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin Books
Published By: Penguin Books
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction|Libya|Libya|Narrative theme: Politics|Narrative theme: Politics
Dimensions: 196 x 127 x 27
Weight: 316
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241987032

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