{"product_id":"9780241409480","title":"Hisham Matar - My Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Hisham Matar. Themes include Fiction, Literary, Political, Friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist For The National Book Award 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner Of The Orwell Prize For Political Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner For Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted For The Jhalak Prose Prize 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted For The Booker Prize 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom The Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author Of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Return\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile' Colm Toibin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The first Booker contender of 2024 . . . a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'It is impossible to describe the profound depth and beauty of this book' Maaza Mengiste, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow King\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e'My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e is both a complex and unsentimental meditation on what friendship means and a searingly moving exploration of how exile impacts those who are forced to live in this state of loss. It is a book that we loved for its spareness of language and its deeply affecting storytelling.' Booker Prize Judges 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58013055844726,"sku":null,"price":12.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780241409480.jpg?v=1780505050","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780241409480","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}