Author of the Month: Hisham Matar
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Our Author of the Month for February is the novelist, memoirist and essayist Hisham Matar.
Matar was born in New York, the son of a Libyan political dissident whose persecution by the Gaddafi regime led to the family’s permanent exile from Libya; themes of exile, loss and dispossession recur throughout his work. In 1990, his father was kidnapped by the Egyptian secret police in Cairo; Matar’s search for his father forms the backbone of his memoir The Return, and the abduction is a central motif in his second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance. Matar has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Costa Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize; his most recent novel, My Friends, won last year’s Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
From the publisher:
Winner of The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024An 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…
From the publisher:
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR…
From the publisher:
In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets…
From the publisher:
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie…
From the publisher:
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then…
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