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Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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 he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood.

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In the Country of Men

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Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 06/08/2015
    ISBN13: 9780241973622, 978-0241973622
    ISBN10: 0241973627

    Number of Pages: 256

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

    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 he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood.

    Hisham Matar's new novel My Friends is available for pre-order now!

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