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Dial Press
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0385340427
EAN: 9780385340427
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Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed
by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins
surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the
burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant
business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve
around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories
full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman
sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his
face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn’t he
supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going
into that strange building with the green shutters? Why did
he lie? Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to
understand—where the sound of the telephone ringing becomes
a portent of grave danger; where his mother frantically
burns his father’s cherished books; where a stranger full of
sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day;
where his best friend’s father can disappear overnight, next
to be seen publicly interrogated on state television.
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