Research Catalog

My friends : a novel

Title: My friends : a novel / Hisham Matar.
Author: Matar, Hisham, 1970-
Publication: New York : Random House, [2024]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFE 24-564	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description

398 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"One 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. Obsessed by the power of those words--and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa--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. There, thrust into an open society that is light years 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 in tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, an exile, unable to leave England, 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 jeopardize their safety. When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face to face with Hosam Zawa, 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"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Novels.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.

Call Number

JFE 24-564

ISBN

9780812994841
0812994841
9780812994858 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023018544

OCLC

1375637071

Author

Matar, Hisham, 1970- author.

Title

My friends : a novel / Hisham Matar.

Publisher

New York : Random House, [2024]

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

Since 1969

Other Form:

Online version: Matar, Hisham. My friends First edition. New York : Random House, 2024 9780812994858 (DLC) 2023018545

Research Call Number

JFE 24-564

View in Legacy Catalog