{"product_id":"9780241987032","title":"My Friends","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Matar, Hisham \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 9 January 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 464 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 128 x 27 | 324g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024FROM THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE RETURN'A brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile' COLM TOIBINKhaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The first Booker contender of 2024 . . . a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' Sunday Times'It is impossible to describe the profound depth and beauty of this book' MAAZA MENGISTE, author of THE SHADOW KING'My Friends is both a complex and unsentimental meditation on what friendship means and a searingly moving exploration of how exile impacts those who are forced to live in this state of loss. It is a book that we loved for its spareness of language and its deeply affecting storytelling.’  Booker Prize Judges 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54929701896568,"sku":"9780241987032","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9780241987032_9d0aeb52-e472-442f-b331-104273410411.jpg?v=1773925456","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780241987032","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}