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Whispers and fears intensify around a young boy in Hisham Matar’s gripping depiction of childhood confronted with the effects of revolution.On a white-hot day in Tripoli in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street in a pair of dark glasses. But why isn’t he waving? And why doesn’t he come over when he knows Suleiman’s mother is falling apart? Suleiman begins to wonder whether his father has disappeared for good."Graceful... Quietly, but with the insistence of a tolling bell, Matar lays bare for Suleiman both public and private worlds of overlapping male power, role models, standards and styles. At its intimate centre, the novel calibrates the boy's shifting, decreasingly innocent perspective as he himself becomes implicated by cruelty and betrayal." - Atlantic Journal-Constitution"A remarkably perceptive and affecting portrait of a young boy's premature political awakening... [Matar] expertly builds an atmosphere of palpable tension, and though this novel never delves directly into politics, the menacing pall cast by political t

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Author

Hisham Matar

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241973622

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.65 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13