<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION</b><br></p><p><br><b> FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR <br><br>¿The first Booker contender of 2024... a deeply touching, beautifully composed book¿ <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>¿My Friends is a brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile. It makes clear, once more, that Hisham Matar is a supremely talented novelist¿ - Colm Toibin, author of <i>Brooklyn</i></b><br><br><b>¿Hisham is one of our greatest writers, how lucky we are to be in his midst¿ - Maaza Mengiste, author of <i>The Shadow King</i>, shortlisted for the Booker Prize</b><br><br><b>My Friends is the most beautiful, complete, masterful novel I have read in a long time. Read it'' - Priscilla Morris, author of the Women''s Prize shortlisted <i>Black Butterflies</i></b><br><br>Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studie