Hisham Matar Books
In the Country of Men
By Hisham Matar
In Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping with his mother. His father is away on business, but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street....
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By Hisham Matar
Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic g...
Read MoreAnatomy of a disappearance
By Hisham Matar
Born into exile, eleven-year-old Nuri, the son of worldly parents who fled the revolution in their Arab country, is transfixed along with his widowed father by an Arab-English woman who joins their...
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By Hisham Matar
This mesmerizing literary novel is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition. In a voice that is delicately wrought and b...
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By Hisham Matar
In a delicately wrought and beautifully tender voice, Hisham Matar's extraordinary new novel asks, "when a loved one disappears how does his or her absence shape the lives of those who are left?" F...
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