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In the country of men

On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street. This novel tells a tale from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world.

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  • "pays des hommes"
  • "In the country of men"@he
  • "In the country of men"@tr
  • "In the country of men"@it

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  • "On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street ... From a breathtaking new talent comes an utterly gripping, emotional novel told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world where his best friend's father disappears and is next seen on state television at a public execution; where a mysterious man sits outside the house all day and asks strange questions; and where it seems his father has finally disappeared for good."
  • "Retranscrite par la voix de Souleiman, un enfant de neuf ans, cette terrifiante chronique de la vie sous la présidence de Kadhafi retrace l'horreur de la répression et cette angoisse de tous les instants dans laquelle tentent de survivre le petit garçon et ses proches. Premier roman."
  • "On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street. This novel tells a tale from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world."@en
  • "Een jongeman kijkt terug op de tijd dat hij als 9-jarige getuige was van de onderdrukking en martelingen in het Libië van Khadaffi."
  • "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 unanswred."
  • "Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman's days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood" outing to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father's constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy markeplace, his face wrapped in dark sunglasses. Wasn't he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why did he lie? Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand---where the sound of the telephone ringing becomes a portent of grave danger, where his mother frantically burns his father's cherished books, where a stranger full of sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day; where his best friend's father can disappear overnight, next to be seen publicly interrogated on state television. In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace."@en
  • ""On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - except that he is sure he has just seen his father, standing across the street in a pair of dark glasses. But why isn't he waving? And why doesn't he come over when he knows Suleiman's mother is falling apart? From a breathtaking new talent comes an utterly gripping, incredibly emotional novel told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world where his best friend's father disappears and is next seen on state television at a public execution; where a mysterious man sits outside the house all day and asks strange questions; where his mother and uncle burn all his father's books when they know what an avid reader he is and when it seems his father has finally disappeared for good. Soon the whispers and fears, secrets and lies will become so intense that Suleiman can bear them no longer and in his terrified effort to save his family may end up betraying his friends, his parents and ultimately himself."--Penguin UK."@en
  • ""On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - except that he is sure he has just seen his father, standing across the street in a pair of dark glasses. But why isn't he waving? And why doesn't he come over when he knows Suleiman's mother is falling apart? From a breathtaking new talent comes an utterly gripping, incredibly emotional novel told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world where his best friend's father disappears and is next seen on state television at a public execution; where a mysterious man sits outside the house all day and asks strange questions; where his mother and uncle burn all his father's books when they know what an avid reader he is and when it seems his father has finally disappeared for good. Soon the whispers and fears, secrets and lies will become so intense that Suleiman can bear them no longer and in his terrified effort to save his family may end up betraying his friends, his parents and ultimately himself."--Penguin UK."
  • "Nine-year-old Suleiman struggles to understand what's happening to his family during Moammar Gaddafi's reign of terror in Libya."@en
  • ""Ultimately, this is a novel most concerned with relationships between people - friends, spouses, comrades, and, particularly, parents and their children. Matar movingly charts the ways in which love endures in situtations of great represasion, but salso shows how repression threatens everything, even love, putting relationships under a strain that can be unendurable ... Whatever his subject, Matar writes beautifully"--Bookjacket."
  • "In the Country of Men captures life in Libya in the wake of Muammar al-Qaddafi's revolution. Through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy named Suleiman, we watch a family struggle for survival in a climate of deadly political suspicion. Against a backdrop of innocent childhood rituals--playing games with his best friends, learning his country's history on visits to the ruins surrounding Tripoli--Suleiman is also awakened to dangers he cannot comprehend. When his father is brutally interrogated and his best friend's father disappears, Suleiman arrives at a crossroads that will shatter his understanding of home and homeland.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Nine-year-old Suleiman's normal childhood in Libya in 1979 begins to unravel when his best friend's father is arrested by government agents, his mother's drinking spirals out of control, and he spots his own father--who is supposedly away on business--wearing sunglasses in a busy marketplace."
  • "On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - except that he is sure he has just seen his father, standing across the street in a pair of dark glasses. But why isn't he waving? And why doesn't he come over when he knows Suleiman's mother is falling apart? Whispers and fears intensify around Suleiman: his best friend's father disappears and is next seen being interrogated on state television; a man parks his car outside the house every day and asks strange questions; and his mother frantically burns his father's books. As Suleiman wonders if his father is gone for good, it feels as if the wall of his home will break with the secrets that are being held within."@en
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance. Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman's days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father's constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn't he supposed to be away on business yet again' Why is he going into that strange building with the green shutters' Why did he lie' Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand'where the sound of the telephone ringing becomes a portent of grave danger; where his mother frantically burns his father's cherished books; where a stranger full of sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day; where his best friend's father can disappear overnight, next to be seen publicly interrogated on state television. In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace."@en
  • "Story of Libyan childhood under the Qaddafi regime in the 1970s."
  • "On a hot day in Tripoli in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman spots his father, supposedly away on business, across from the market square and wearing dark glasses, the first portent of grave danger in a previously unsuspected world."@en

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  • "Translations"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"@en
  • "Political fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Fiction in English"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Anglicky psané romány"
  • "Coming of age"@en
  • "History"@he
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "V zemi mužů"
  • "In the Country of Men"
  • "一分為二的童年"
  • "Im Land der Männer : Roman"
  • "U muškoj zemlji"
  • "In the county of men"
  • "Niemandsland : roman"
  • "Solo en el mundo"@es
  • "Solo en el mundo"
  • "Al país dels homes"
  • "Au pays des hommes roman"
  • "Im Land der Männer Roman"
  • "ʻOlam shel gevarim"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "V deželi mož"@sl
  • "Yi fen wei er de tong nian"
  • "Au pays des hommes : roman"
  • "Ingen i världen"
  • "Ingen i världen"@sv
  • "In the country of men"@en
  • "In the country of men"
  • "Nessuno al mondo"
  • "Nessuno al mondo"@it
  • "עולם של גברים"
  • "Dar kishvar-i mardān"
  • "Mændenes land : roman"@da
  • "In the Country of men"
  • "Erkekler diyarında"
  • "Erkekler diyarında"@tr
  • "olam shel gevarim = In the country of men"

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