My Friends

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1231347My Friendshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/my-friends-3/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/544195/50d9ba39-b6ad-4e9d-b242-b84a853b263b.jpg?v=638802928847730000235306MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A masterly (The New York Times, Editors Choice), riveting (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The ReturnA profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few people whom fate presses against us.The Washington PostONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHER WEEKLYS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Time, NPR, BookPageWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONOne evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsand fraysthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers....1222050My Friends235306https://www.gandhi.com.mx/my-friends-3/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/544195/50d9ba39-b6ad-4e9d-b242-b84a853b263b.jpg?v=638802928847730000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249780812994858_W3siaWQiOiI5MDMzMTYyNC1iZWYzLTRhOTAtYmExMi1lOWJhOTczNjU2MGEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMwNiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjcxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIzNSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDJUMDM6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780812994858_From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return, a luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkabl realities of exileThe trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and although nothing does, we continue, inside our dream.One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those wordsand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZawaKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode in tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, an exile, unable to leave England, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would jeopardize their safety.When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face to face with Hosam Zawa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him, but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him. A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsand fraysthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author at the peak of his powers....(*_*)9780812994858_NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A masterly (The New York Times, Editors Choice), riveting (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The ReturnA profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few people whom fate presses against us.The Washington PostONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHER WEEKLYS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, BookPageWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONOne evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsand fraysthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers....(*_*)9780812994858_NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A masterly (The New York Times, Editors Choice), riveting (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The ReturnA profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few people whom fate presses against us.The Washington PostONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHER WEEKLYS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Time, NPR, BookPageWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONOne evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsand fraysthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers....(*_*)9780812994858_NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A masterly (The New York Times, Editors Choice), riveting (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The ReturnA profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few people whom fate presses against us.The Washington PostONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHER WEEKLYS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Time, NPR, BookPageWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONOne evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those wordsand by their enigmatic author, Hosam ZowaKhaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time testsand fraysthose bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers....9780812994858_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_fafc9916-fce0-37fb-9ba9-511a66f42f8c_9780812994858;9780812994858_9780812994858Hisham MatarInglésMéxico2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-cc68f581-8a6d-4d20-9482-a2fb47e35786.epub2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group