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Country United Kingdom Publication date 6 July 2006 ISBN 978-0-670-91639-9 Publisher Viking Press | 3.6/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 256 pp Originally published 6 July 2006 Genre Novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Characters Ustath Rashid, Suleiman el Dewani, Sharief, Kareem, Moosa, Faraj el Dewani, Najwa Nominations Booker Prize, Guardian First Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Novels The Inheritance of Loss, Moon Tiger, Cat's Eye, Cloudstreet, In a Strange Room | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lecture hisham matar in the country of men oct 7 2011
In the Country of Men is the debut novel of Libyan writer Hisham Matar, first published in 2006 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books. It was nominated for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. It has so far been translated into 22 languages and was awarded the 2007 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize as well as a host of international literary prizes. The book was also nominated for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in the U.S.
Contents
In the country of men part one
Plot summary
The book follows the plight of Suleiman, a nine-year-old boy living in Tripoli in Libya, stuck between a father whose clandestine anti-Qaddafi activities bring about searches, stalkings and telephone eaves droppings by Qaddafi's state police, and a vulnerable young mother who resorts to alcohol to bury her anxiety and anger. The only people he has to turn to are his neighbor Kareem, and his father's best friend Moosa. The book provides a description of Libya under Qaddafi's terror regime, and a narration of ordinary people's lives as they try to survive the political oppression.