num_pages: 249
description: On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street...From a breathtaking new talent comes an utterly gripping, emotional novel told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world where his best friend's father disappears and is next seen on state television at a public execution; where a mysterious man sits outside the house all day and asks strange questions; and where it seems his father has finally disappeared for good. Soon the whispers and fears, secrets and lies will become so intense that Suleiman can bear them no longer and in his terrified efforts to save his family may end up betraying his friends, his parents and ultimately himself.
language: English
title: In the Country of Men
titlecomplete: In the Country of Men
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Northern Africa, Libya, Historical, Historical Fiction, Africa, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 6539
places: Libya
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Arab American Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book in South Asia and Europe, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Dial, 2007