My Friends

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024<BR>WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION<BR>NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PROSE PRIZE 2025<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024<BR>FROM THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE RETURN<BR><BR>'A brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile' COLM TOIBIN<BR><BR>Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.<BR><BR>Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.<BR><BR>'The first Booker contender of 2024 . . . a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' Sunday Times<BR><BR>'It is impossible to describe the profound depth and beauty of this book' MAAZA MENGISTE, author of THE SHADOW KING<BR><BR>'My Friends is both a complex and unsentimental meditation on what friendship means and a searingly moving exploration of how exile impacts those who are forced to live in this state of loss. It is a book that we loved for its spareness of language and its deeply affecting storytelling.' Booker Prize Judges 2024<BR>