My Friends: From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of THE RETURN

MY FRIENDS is a novel by Hisham Matar that explores the lives of three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide. It is a brilliant novel about innocence and experience, friendship, family, and exile, and is praised for its tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice.

Format: Hardback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 11 January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

The first Booker contender of 2024 is a profoundly touching and beautifully composed book that delves into the lives of three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide. Written by 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 demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. However, when government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, 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.

"My Friends" is a brilliant novel that explores the themes of innocence and experience, friendship, family, and exile. It showcases Hisham Matar's supremely talented writing, with his tender and compassionate yet strong and compelling voice. Colm Toibin, Elif Shafak, Maaza Mengiste, and other acclaimed authors have praised the profound depth and beauty of this book, describing it as a breathtaking novel that is a miracle and an affirmation.

Hisham Matar is one of our greatest writers, and we are fortunate to be in his midst. His novel "My Friends" is a testament to his talent and the power of storytelling to connect and inspire readers.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 220 x 140 x 42 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241409480