by Hisham Matar · Einaudi · tapa dura · ISBN 9788806262280
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«Amici di una vita» is the literary fiction novel by Hisham Matar, published by Einaudi in hardcover (376 pages, in Italian).
Khaled, a young man from Benghazi, hears a story by Hosam Zowa on the BBC and meets him years later in the UK. With his friend Mustafa he travels to London to protest against Gaddafi; the shooting at the Libyan embassy in 1984 condemns them to exile. Twenty years later, the three friends face loss, fear and friendship in different ways.
Italian translation by Anna Nadotti; published on September 3, 2024 in the Supercoralli collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in exile, politics and friendship.
Hisham Matar is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and several other awards. Matar's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and many other publications. He has also written several other novels.
