My friends
Matar, Hisham, 1970-2024
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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. Government officials open fire, killing a policewoman and wounding eleven Libyan demonstrators. Both friends are critically injured and their lives are 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.
Main title:
My friends / by Hisham Matar.
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Imprint:
London : Viking, 2024.
Collation:
457 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published in US by Random House, 2024.
ISBN:
9780241409497 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
Historical fictionLibyans -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- FictionAuthors -- FictionArab Spring, 2010- -- FictionCollege students -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- FictionDemonstrations -- FictionFriendship -- FictionLibyans -- FictionLondon (England) -- FictionLibya -- Politics and government -- 1969-2011 -- Fiction
BRN:
509669
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