Pulitzer Prize-winner Hisham Matar imbues each scene of this scintillating coming-of-age novel with rich, nostalgic emotion, combining history and fiction as he follows a young Libyan man’s move from Benghazi to London.
Random House
9780812994841
Random House
9780812994841
Pulitzer Prize-winner Hisham Matar imbues each scene of this scintillating coming-of-age novel with rich, nostalgic emotion, combining history and fiction as he follows a young Libyan man’s move from Benghazi to London.
Being an émigré isn’t that unthinkable: Just imagine that you have to leave home forever, potentially never to return. Or imagine that you never had a home in the first place; that the very word “home” taunts and perpetually eludes you; that everywhere you go, you try to find or create it to no avail.…
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