My friends

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return, a luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile

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 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. 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 light years away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode in tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, an exile, unable to leave England, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would jeopardize their safety.

When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face to face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him, but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.

A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author at the peak of his powers.

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My Friends

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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 of the return khaled and mustafa meet at university in edinburgh two libyan eighteen year olds expecting Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, donderdag in huis .. MEER INFO

My Friends

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Longlisted for the booker prize 2024 finalist for the national book award 2024 winner of the orwell prize for political fiction from the pulitzer prize winning author of the return a brilliant novel about innocence and experience about friendship family and exile colm toibin khaled and mustafa m Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Return

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Winner of the pulitzer prize in biography winner of the rathbones folio prize shortlisted for the baillie gifford prize for non fiction shortlisted for the costa biography awardshortlisted for the national book critics circle award for autobiographywinner of the slightly foxed best first biography p Uiterlijk 30 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 januari 2024

Aantal pagina's: 416

Hoofdauteur: Hisham Matar

Hoofduitgeverij: Random House Usa Inc

Product breedte: 163 mm

Product hoogte: 36 mm

Product lengte: 242 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 163 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 36 mm

Verpakking lengte: 242 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 635 g

EAN: 9780812994841

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