Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/fiction/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0003 407360 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/fiction/engine/rss.php:0 Hisham Matar - Free Library Land Online - Fiction https://fiction.library.land/ ru Hisham Matar - Free Library Land Online - Fiction DataLife Engine My Friends https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/676318-my_friends.html https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/676318-my_friends.html My Friends
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...]]> Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:07:05 +0200 Anatomy of a Disappearance https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/234476-anatomy_of_a_disappearance.html https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/234476-anatomy_of_a_disappearance.html Anatomy of a Disappearance
]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:33:48 +0200 The Return https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/236780-the_return.html https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/236780-the_return.html The Return
From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of answers to his father's disappearance.
In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years.
When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison.
Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballa Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning."
This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of...]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:11:20 +0200 In the Country of Men https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/236779-in_the_country_of_men.html https://fiction.library.land/hisham-matar/236779-in_the_country_of_men.html In the Country of Men
On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street...From a breathtaking new talent comes an utterly gripping, emotional novel told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world where his best friend's father disappears and is next seen on state television at a public execution; where a mysterious man sits outside the house all day and asks strange questions; and where it seems his father has finally disappeared for good.Soon the whispers and fears, secrets and lies will become so intense that Suleiman can bear them no longer and in his terrified efforts to save his family may end up betraying his friends, his parents and ultimately himself.]]> Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:11:19 +0200