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Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn’t he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going into that strange building with the green shutters? Why did he lie? <br><br>Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand—where the sound of the telephone ringing becomes a portent of grave danger; where his mother frantically burns his father’s cherished books; where a stranger full of sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day; where his best friend’s father can disappear overnight, next to be seen publicly interrogated on state television.<br><br><b>In the Country of Men</b> is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.
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written by Hisham Matar and published in February 2007 by The Dial Press. This is Matar's bio as written on the end flap:
Hisham Matar was born in 1970 in New York city to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo. He lives in London and is currently ...more...]]>
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Short-listed for both the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award, Hisham Matar's novel, widely published, raises comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner (***1/2 Sept/Oct 2003). Critics agree that Matar's poetic, visual prose reflects a skill and maturity often l...more...]]>
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"I suffer an absence, an ever-present absence, like an orphan not entirely certain of what he has missed or gained through his unchosen loss. I am both repulsed and surprised, for example, by my exaggerated sentiment when parting with people I am not intimate with, promisi...more...]]>
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The thing that irked me, though, was the unevenness of the narration. In general, it was a...more...]]>
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The problem I encountered is that the boy does and says dangerous, malicious things to his friends (calling his best friend's...more...]]>
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No Country for Old Men that just won multiple Oscars and it has thematic elements similar to The Kite Runner. I ha...more...]]>
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