Location(s): Tripoli
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Late 1970s
1979, set against the brutal police state of Gaddafi’s Libya. Through the eyes of nine year old Suleiman we see and experienc Tripoli, and Suleiman’s family in the city, and what it means not to have freedom.
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`Exquisite, poignant, hopeful . . . deserved its place on the 2006 Man Booker shortlist’ Daily Telegraph The Libyan setting – political, cultural and physical – is extremely well evoked. A novel of great...
Glitters in the backdrop of 1979 Tripoli and lingers in the yearning mind
I’m normally not a fan of historical fiction, but as a world literature lover, I couldn’t help but try this one. Even though it was a little difficult to get into, I am so, so glad I did. In...
I am in two minds about this book. On one hand I found it fascinating to read an account of life in Libya under the rule of Gaddafi and on the other the book left me curiously unsatisfied as...
When he was just 9 years old, Hisham Matar’s family was forced to flee from Libya to escape Colonel Gaddafi’s tyrannical and repressive regime. In 1990 his father was kidnapped from Cairo and returned...
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