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In the country of men / Hisham Matar

By:

Matar, Hisham

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Large print booksPublication details: Detroit : Thomson Gale , 2007.Description: 349 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780786296415

Subject(s):

Libya -- -Fiction

DDC classification:

LARP FIC MAT

Abstract: "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 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 begins to wonder whether his father has disappeared for good, it feels as if the walls of his home will break with the secrets that are being held within."--BOOK JACKET.

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Large print book	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	LARP FIC MAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		026568

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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 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 begins to wonder whether his father has disappeared for good, it feels as if the walls of his home will break with the secrets that are being held within."--BOOK JACKET.

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