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My friends : a novel / Hisham Matar.

Author Matar, Hisham, 1970- author.

Description398 pages ; 25 cm

Abstract:"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 words--and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa--Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:9780812994841 (hardcover)

ISBN:0812994841

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