The Capacity of Male Friendship in Hisham Matar’s My Friends
My Friends is a brilliant political novel. Hisham Matar’s third work of fiction highlights several historical events, most importantly, Libyan officials’ shooting of anti-Qaddafi protestors at the London embassy (1984) and the Libyan Revolution (2011). Through his melancholic chronicle of Khaled, Hosam, and Mustafa, all Libyan exiles in the UK, Matar reminds us of the […]
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My Friends is a brilliant political novel. Hisham Matar’s third work of fiction highlights several historical events, most importantly, Libyan officials’ shooting of anti-Qaddafi protestors at the London embassy (1984) and the Libyan Revolution (2011). Through his melancholic chronicle of Khaled, Hosam, and Mustafa, all Libyan exiles in the UK, Matar reminds us of the
