{"product_id":"my-friends","title":"My Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The first Booker contender of 2024... a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKhaled 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'MY FRIENDS is a brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile. It makes clear, once more, that Hisham Matar is a supremely talented novelist.' COLM TOIBIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I have always admired Matar's tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice' ELIF SHAFAK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It is impossible to describe the profound depth and beauty of this book. MY FRIENDS is a breathtaking novel, every page a miracle and an affirmation. Hisham is one of our greatest writers, how lucky we are to be in his midst.' MAAZA MENGISTE, author of THE SHADOW KING\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45111170433203,"sku":"9780241409497","price":640.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/71UQqXDLlXL.jpg?v=1762905907","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/my-friends","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}