Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006. A first novel by Hisham Matar. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s father is away on business, but Suleiman is sure he sees him in the market square of Tripoli. Why doesn’t he come over?
Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970 and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo. He has lived in London since 1986 and is currently at work on his second novel.
