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My Friends
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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A masterful, 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 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.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-01-2024
painfully exquisite
This is my new favourite book in the world. excellent story, beautiful and world healing writing that gives shape to so many human experiences and emotions, a book that I will now read., then listen to, again. so interesting how the narrator's ability to remember and share his younger selfish experiences connects with my own and I assume other readers' human attempts to/worries over failing to remember or forget, simultaneously...so that reading this book is both the story of three friends,.and the reader's journey in relationship with the characters. It is tragic to be reading it while Palestinians are the victims of genocide, but it is a gentle book that heals through holding so much of pain and love and humanity. Thanks to Hisham Matar for writing this for the world, and for doing the amazing reading.
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- Darcy Moore
- 22-09-2024
A Gentle Story
A phenomenally beautiful narrative of friendship, politics and literature! There is a gentleness, a wonderful civility of tone and style which entwine to tell a memorable story of violence, surveillance and social dislocation! Highest recommendation!
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