{"product_id":"my-friends","title":"MY FRIENDS","description":"\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION\u003cbr\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024\u003cbr\u003eFROM THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE RETURN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile'' COLM TOIBIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKhaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e''The first Booker contender of 2024 . . . a deeply touching, beautifully composed book'' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e''It is impossible to describe the profound depth and beauty of this book'' MAAZA MENGISTE, author of THE SHADOW KING\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e''My Friends is both a complex and unsentimental meditation on what friendship means and a searingly moving exploration of how exile impacts those who are forced to live in this state of loss. It is a book that we loved for its spareness of language and its deeply affecting storytelling.’ Booker Prize Judges 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157673082916,"sku":null,"price":2200.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9780241987032.jpg?v=1768300145","url":"https:\/\/vanguardbooks.com\/products\/my-friends","provider":"Vanguard Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}