Hisham Matar
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...