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In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar

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Mar 06, 2013 Annie rated it really liked it

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For my Around the World challenge (Libya).

Moving novel about life under the oppressive Gaddafi regime in Tripoli, Libya, as experienced by a nine-year-old boy whose father is a political dissident. I found the mother-son relationship particularly poignant and complex; the moral center of the story clearly is the flawed but unbreakable mother of Suleiman. A book that stays with you.

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