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Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond games on the hot pavement outside his home 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. In his father's worrying absence, Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood. And, as lies and fears intensify, it feels as if the walls of Suleiman's home will break with the secrets held within it.
Review: 'Exquisite, so full of essential truths: the more you read the more you feel the childhood described in it is yours' - Nadeem Aslam, author of, Maps for Lost Lovers
Prizes: Winner of Ondaatje Prize 2007 and Commonwealth Writers Prize 2007. Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 and National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction 2008.
Author Biography: Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He has lived in London since 1986. In the Country of Men has been published in twenty-two languages, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006, the Guardian First Book Award and the Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award, and won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book for the Europe and South Asia region and the Gregor von Rezzori Prize.
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