SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR
-The first Booker contender of 2024... a deeply touching, beautifully composed book- Sunday Times
-My Friends is a brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile. It makes clear, once more, that Hisham Matar is a supremely talented novelist- - Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn
-Hisham is one of our greatest writers, how lucky we are to be in his midst- - Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
My Friends is the most beautiful, complete, masterful novel I have read in a long time. Read it'' - Priscilla Morris, author of the Women''s Prize shortlisted Black Butterflies
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studie
