Webb“One of the most moving works based on a boy’s view of the world.”—Newsweek “Elegiac . . . [Hisham Matar] writes of a son’s longing for a lost father with heartbreaking acuity.”—Newsday Don’t miss the conversation between Hisham Matar and Hari Kunzru at the back of the book. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE Webb4 sep. 2007 · Hisham Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He has lived in the UK since 1986. His début novel, In the Country of Men , was published by The Dial Press (a division of Random House) in the U.S. (2007) and Viking in the UK (2006) to great critical acclaim.

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WebbHisham Matar is a novelist and award-winning author of In the Country of Men, Anatomy of a Disappearance, and The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between. Hisham Matar is a novelist and award-winning … Webb5 juli 2016 · “I envy the finality of funerals,” Hisham Matar writes in one of his memoir’s most moving passages. “I covet the certainty. How it must be to wrap one’s hands around the bones, to choose how to... WebbI was fascinated with this spare yet elegantly written coming of age novel because so much of the story parallels the author, Hisham Matar’s own life. In this semi-autobiographical story, Nuri, a young boy of 14 years, … black curls men