Description
Title: My Friends
Author: MATAR HISHAM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 09/04/2025
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
An 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
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.
ISBN: 9780241987032
Weight: 320g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 464