IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN by Hisham Matar ( 9780241973622 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN

By:

Hisham Matar

Format:

Paperback

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£9.99

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ISBN 10:

0241973627

ISBN 13:

9780241973622

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

6 August, 2015

Series:

Penguin Essentials

Pages:

256

Description:

Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and 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.

Synopsis:

Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and 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. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood.

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Penguin Books Ltd

Prizes:

Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2014 Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014

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