Books by Hisham Matar
Add a: Month in Siena, Hisham Matar’s perspective on Classical art, confident/ understands it completely, but adds a new perspective to it because of his Muslim heritage. That’s what is significant about it. Also a sweet, unpretentious book.
“My Friends by Hisham Matar is a novel that explores the fallout of the 1984 shootings at the Libyan embassy in London, and its effect on three friends. The quietness of the prose belies the event’s traumatic drama and its profound personal and political repercussions. The style is old-fashioned – genteel almost – and authentic to the point of reading like the most exquisite memoir. A warm and extraordinarily clear-sighted novel that is, in part, about the power of the literary word to effect real-world change” Read more...
The Best Political Novels of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Fiction
“It’s about a UK-based writer whose father disappeared in Libya.” Read more...
Stephanie Flanders, Economist
Interviews where books by Hisham Matar were recommended
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
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Negroland: A Memoir
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
by Robert J. Gordon
Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, recommended by Stephanie Flanders
Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, recommended by Stephanie Flanders
Stephanie Flanders, chair of this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, talks us through some of the best nonfiction books of 2016.
The Best Political Novels of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Fiction
The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction is awarded annually to “outstanding novels and collections of short stories, first published in the UK or Ireland, that illuminate major social and political themes, present or past, through the art of narrative.”
