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Original Title:	In the Country of Men
ISBN:	0385340427 (ISBN13: 9780385340427)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Libya,1979
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2006), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2006), Arab American Book Award for Fiction (2007), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2007), The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize (2007) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South Asia and Europe (2007), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2008)

In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar

Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 5313 Users | 763 Reviews

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Title	:	In the Country of Men
Author	:	Hisham Matar
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	January 30th 2007 by The Dial Press (first published January 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Northern Africa. Libya. Literature

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In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the effects of Libyan strongman Khadafy's 1969 September revolution.

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.

In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.

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Does it worth a re-reading?I think, it earnestly does.

Sadly, a quote from Francis Bacon comes to mind, that some books should only be sampled or some such thing. This book was quite dull. I started it with great expectations; it was the first novel I had read by a Libyan writer and with Libya constantly in the news, I thought its moment had come. It is also a book narrated from the perspective of a nine-year-old boy, and I was looking forward to some innocence, humour and charm. There was not much of that- the boy seemed at once too mature and too

If you know me, youll know that I love ME literature. I finally found another favorite to put with Seasons Migration to the North and Cities of Salt. I enjoyed reading this book. Ive never read about the Libyan revolution and this was a nice introduction to the era. It was full of suspense, innocence, struggle between different levels of patriarchal rule and role of women. Gain and loss of friendships,acceptance of past and future and wretchedness of uncontrollable circumstances. Including

This book is set in Libya, and tells the story of a young boy growing up in Tripoli in the 1970s, learning that his parents are actual people with actual lives and actual flaws. Learning that his actions have very serious ramifications. Learning that the world is much bigger than he thinks it is. It's a difficult book to read in a lot of ways, and a frustrating book in others because being told through the eyes of a nine year old, there are a lot of serious issues that aren't really covered in

Some authors make a political statement with their stories, powerful because of the emotional connections we make as readers to the circumstances. In this case, and despite the multiple awards and award nominations, I felt the story was a thin veil over circumstances that the author wanted to talk about. The nine year old makes confusing decisions, isn't afraid when a normal child would be, leading to destruction around him. He felt emotionally distant. At the same time, the author ends up not

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