by Hisham Matar · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141030449
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«In the Country of Men» is the literary fiction novel by Hisham Matar, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In 1979 Libya, Suleiman, a nine-year-old boy, sees his childhood endangered when he discovers his father, who should be away on a trip, at the market wearing dark sunglasses. His mother's unsettling stories, the books she burns and the disappearance of a neighbour drag the boy into a world of secrets and fear.
First novel by Hisham Matar, originally published in 2006 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006.
For readers of literary and historical fiction and reading groups looking for novels about childhood in a climate of fear and surveillance.
Hisham Matar is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and several other awards. Matar's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and many other publications. He has also written several other novels.
