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Join TMR Book Club to discuss My Friends by Hisham Matar online on Sunday, January 25th, at 1 pm Eastern/19:00 CET.

Hisham Matar’s My Friends follows Khaled, a Libyan exile in London, whose life is shaped by friendship, political violence, and memory. Through letters and recollections, the novel explores displacement, guilt, and belonging, revealing how bonds between friends endure, fracture, and define identity across time and distance and the generational emotional consequences.

About the author:

Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York.

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2025

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