My Friends

Resumen del libro

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONFROM THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE RETURN'A brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile' COLM TOIBINKhaled 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.

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. 'The first Booker contender of 2024 .

. . a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' Sunday Times'It is impossible to describe the profound depth and beauty of this book' MAAZA MENGISTE, author of THE SHADOW KING'My Friends 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Hisham Matarx{0026}lt;/B nació en Nueva York en 1970, de padres libios, creció en Trípoli y en El Cairo y ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta en Inglaterra. Su ópera prima, x{0026}lt;I Solo en el mundox{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2007), se tradujo a una treintena de idiomas, fue finalista de los premios Booker y Guardian First Book en Inglaterra y National Book Critics Circle en Estados Unidos, y obtuvo seis importantes galardones literarios internacionales, entre ellos el Commonwealth Writers' Prize, el Ondaatje de la Royal Society of Literature, el Flaiano y el Gregor von Rezzori. Un éxito que repitió con su segunda novela, x{0026}lt;I Historia de una desapariciónx{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2011). Con el relato autobiográfico x{0026}lt;I El regresox{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2017), seleccionado como uno de los diez mejores libros del año por x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , ganó el Premio Pulitzer, el PEN/Jean Stein Book Award y el Folio Prize. Su última obra es x{0026}lt;I Un mes en Sienax{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2022). Docente en el Barnard College, Hisham Matar es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y miembro honorario de la Royal Academy of Art.x{0026}lt;/P