My friends

Once again, Hisham Matar returns to us with a captivating novel that solidifies his talent, wins awards, attracts critics' praise, and gains the interest of readers in more than 30 languages. "My Friends" by Hisham Matar, a wonderful novel that wanders with a gentle voice and a beautiful style through the characters of its heroes, and skillfully moves between the meanings of exile, friendship, family, love, and pain, drawn with the delicate brush of a sensitive artist and one of the most important contemporary writers. With the precise sensitivity and delicacy of the pen we are accustomed to from him, Hisham Matar takes us in "My Friends" on a one-night journey through the streets of London to traverse thirty years, and to realize how circumstances and political events shape individuals' lives and intrude upon their most delicate details. Ola Awad "I have always admired Hisham Matar's voice; a gentle and compassionate voice, yet strong and captivating at the same time." Alif Shafak "This is a novel haunted by testimony and filled with vivid scenes, moving freely across its sections, exploring and revealing the long hands, visible and invisible, of oppressive authorities, and their practices that cast heavy shadows on human bonds, shaping scenes that are difficult to ignore, and also difficult to forget."