In the country of men: A Novel
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Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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.
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ISBN:
9780385340427
9780385340434
9780440336648
9780385340434
9780440336648
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.8, 11 Points
Level 5.8, 11 Points
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Grouping Title | in the country of men |
Grouping Author | hisham matar |
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Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2022-05-23 02:08:35AM |
Last Indexed | 2022-05-22 03:59:05AM |
Novelist Primary ISBN | none |
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display_description | 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publisher | Dial Press, Random House Publishing Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Boys -- Libya -- Fiction Coming of age -- Fiction Exiles -- Libya -- Fiction Libya -- Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | In the country of men | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | In the Country of Men A Novel In the country of men / Hisham Matar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | In the country of men | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | A Novel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Boys Exiles Fiction Literature Suspense Thriller |