Search for your favourite author or book

My Friends

ISBN 
9780241409497
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R380.00
Published 
February 2024
About the book: 

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author

Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.

Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.

Other titles by this author 

Others also viewed

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and...
We face two important questions. The first pertains to who gets rich and what it is that they do...
THE MARTINI CLUB ISN’T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . .   Maggie Bird’s ‘book...
Among the world’s most fascinating living fossils, scorpions have been around for some 420...