{"product_id":"my-friends-9780812994841","title":"My Friends","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A \"masterly\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Editors' Choice), \"riveting\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few people whom fate presses against us.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHER WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Time, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words--and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa--Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests--and frays--those bonds, \u003ci\u003e My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hisham Matar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812994841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2023 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2023 pg. 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHisham Matar\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York City to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo, and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e was the recipient of many awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Costa Biography Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Matar is also the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eIn the Country of Men, \u003c\/i\u003e which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eA Month in Siena\u003c\/i\u003e. Matar is a professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, and 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 more than thirty languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42920934932595,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_8c8f1c0e-08a8-4521-a428-3082653977ec.jpg?v=1742382056","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/my-friends-9780812994841","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}