In the Country of Men

Posted on 01 September 2017 by Hisham Matar

In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the effects of Libyan strongman Khadafy s 1969 September revolution But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.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. Best Download Kindle ePUB In the Country of Men author Hisham Matar – kino-fada.fr Kod nas je objavio Marso Proverite za to je ova knjiga podobijala tolike nagrade ili bila u u em irem izboru za nagrade Libija Za ljubitelje Lovca na zmajeve ili Jutra u D eninu ili Pitanja i odgovora i Belog tigra This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here The child narrator s point of view is only the tip of the iceberg It s as if the boy s view of the world is warped by the surface of the water Actually, Suleiman isn t a particularly likeable character On the contrary, the reader is discouraged from identifying with the first person narrator, for he recounts episodes of his boyhood in which he indulges in inexplicable cruel behavior which contrasts sharply with the boy s childish innocence in the face of evil and deceit While the book s lang The child narrator s point of view is only the tip of the iceberg It s as if the boy s view of the world is warped by the surface of the water Actually, Suleiman isn t a particularly likeable character On the contrary, the reader is discouraged from identifying with the first person narrator, for he recounts episodes of his boyhood in which he indulges in inexplicable cruel behavior which contrasts sharply with the boy s childish innocence in the face of evil and deceit While the book s language is pretty much straightforward and uncomplicated, to the point that at first I thought this wasn t going to be worth my while, as I read on, became engrossed by the subversive elements of the plot, and the constant interplay of the two temporal pasts ...From my blog written by Hisham Matar and published in February 2007 by The Dial Press This is Matar s bio as written on the end flap Hisham Matar was born in 1970 in New York city to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo He lives in London and is currently at work on his second novel In the Country of Men will be published in twenty two languages.This was a difficult book to read, not because of the density of the writing dense it was not but because the characters From my blog written by Hisham Matar and published in February 2007 by The Dial Press This is Matar s bio as written on the end flap Hisham Matar was born in 1970 in New York city to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo He lives in London and is currently at work on his second novel In the Country of Men will be published in twenty two languages.This was a difficult book to read, not because of the density of the writing dense it was not but because the characters drew you into their lives in such a way that you wanted to, but couldn t, dialog with them The...I began by reading The Return Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between and I wantedIn the Country of Men, by the same author, is fiction with a strong autobiographical basis Having read the two books in this order one can easily differentiate between fictional and non fictional elements The two books are not the same reading them both is not repetitive In this book, we look at a young Libyan boy growing up under Qaddafi s military dictatorship The year is 1979, and the boy s father is I began by reading The Return Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between and I wantedIn the Country of Men, by the same author, is fiction with a strong autobiographical basis Having read the two books in this order one can easily differentiate between fictional and non fictional elements The two books are not the same reading them both is not repetitive In this book, we look at a young Libyan boy growing up under Qaddafi s military dictatorship The year is 1979, and the boy s father is a dissident fighting for change We see through the eyes of a nine year old The boy is trying to under.... The book is, once again, a narrative told by the people of a country, about their country for their country and the world.As communism is dying around the world, and the effects it had on people s lives are appearingandall over the planet, the reader is drawn into this story by the nine year old Suleima writing about his life in Libya and what happened to his nuclear family, the extended family, the neighbor and friends in 1979 during the regime of Mohammar Khadafi His dad, Faraj, The book is, once again, a narrative told by the people of a country, about their country for their country and the world.As communism is dying around the world, and the effects it had .... .AFRICAN BOOKS MARATHON BOOK 3TITLE In the Country of MenAUTHOR Hisham MatarCOUNTRY Libya I chose this book because it takes place in Libya of 1979 My father was working in Bengazi 2nd largest city in Libya in 1979, and things he told me where present in this book.Policemen everywhere in shops, in the streets, phone calls were usually tracked, you had to be careful of what you were saying, your posture, and attitude.197910 years 1969 after Muammar Qaddafi s bloodless coup d tat and we AFRICAN BOOKS MARATHON BOOK 3TITLE In the Country of MenAUTHOR Hisham MatarCOUNTRY Libya I chose this book because it takes place in Libya of 1979 My father was working in Bengazi 2nd largest city in Libya in 1979, and things he told me where present in this book.Policemen everywhere in shops, in the streets, phone calls were usually t...I m a Libyan, so as soon as I heard of the existence of this book I ran to get it There aren t many Libyan authors because, as usual, of Gadhafi , so I have respect for the ones out there My expectations for this book were really high After the revolution any bit of culture that was Libya related was treated like gold I knew a lot of people who loved this book, so I guess I built it up in my head to be a masterpiece or something.Unfortunately it didn t meet up to my ridiculous fantasies Th I m a Libyan, so as soon as I heard of the existence of this book I ran to get it There aren t many Libyan authors because, as usual, of Gadhafi , so I have respect for the ones out there My expectations for this book were really high After the revolution any bit of culture that was Libya related was treated like gold I knew a lot of people who loved this book, so I guess I built it up in my head to be a masterpiece or something.Unfortunately it didn t meet up to my ridiculous fantasies The story is told from the point of the view of the main protagonist, a nine year boy named Suleiman While the portrayal of life under Gadhafi was accurate, it was told through the impatient and shallow perspectiv...

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