Whispers and fears intensify around a young boy in Hisham Matar’s gripping depiction of childhood confronted with the effects of revolution.
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar is the author of two novels, In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and a work of non-fiction, The Return.
In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Critics Book Circle Award in the US and won six international literary awards. The Return won a Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Folio Prize and was shortlisted for many other awards including the Baillie Gifford Prize. Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He lives in London.
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