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IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN
By: Hisham Matar
Dial Press
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0385340427
EAN: 9780385340427
Hardcover
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Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleimanβs 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 fatherβs constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his motherβs 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. Wasnβt 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 understandβwhere the sound of the telephone ringing becomes a portent of grave danger; where his mother frantically burns his fatherβs cherished books; where a stranger full of sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day; where his best friendβs father can disappear overnight, next to be seen publicly interrogated on state television.
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