Matar gently and affectionately examines the friendship of three young Libyan men who, as students in the UK, met at the time of the disastrous anti-Gaddafi demonstrations outside the Libyan Embassy there. The narrator Khaled, in a reflective walk through the neighbourhood they shared as young men, details poignantly the complexities of the eventual choices made by the 3 individuals at the time and in the decades following their displacement.
(Margaret Teh - bwl 114 Autumn 2024 ) |
