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 to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a procession 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.
作者简介
希沙姆-马塔尔出生于纽约,父母是利比亚人,他的童年在的黎波里和开罗度过,大部分时间生活在伦敦。他的回忆录《回归》(The Return)曾获 2017 年普利策奖,他还著有小说《在男人的国度》(In the Country of Men)(曾入围曼布克奖)和《失踪剖析》(Anatomy of a Disappearance),新书是《锡耶纳的一个月》(A Month in Siena)。马塔尔是哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院教授。他是英国皇家文学学会会员和英国皇家艺术学院荣誉会员。他的作品已被翻译成三十多种语言。
Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, tHe is also the author of the novels In the Country of Men, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and his new book is A Month in Siena. Matar is a Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.
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