Books
by Hisham Matar
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My Friends |
Matar gently and affectionately examines the friendship of three young Libyan men who, as students in the UK, met at the time of the disastrous anti-Gaddafi demonstrations outside the Libyan Embassy there. The narrator Khaled, in a reflective walk through the neighbourhood they shared as young men, details poignantly the complexities of the eventual choices made by the 3 individuals at the time and in the decades following their displacement.
(Margaret Teh - bwl 114 Autumn 2024) |
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between |
This memoir deals with a search for the author's Father a leader of the opposition to the Gaddafi regime who was handed over to them by Egypt and then disappeared. It is beautifully told and is a labour of anguished love. The author is also a fine novelist and will point readers to his other work. Libya is now free but broken.
(David Graham - bwl 84 Spring 2017) |
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