Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Country of Men | 2006 | Hisham Matar | Buy |
| 2 | Anatomy of a Disappearance | 2011 | Hisham Matar | Buy |
| 3 | My Friends | 2024 | Hisham Matar | Buy |
Hisham Matar’s three novels span nearly two decades and share a preoccupation with displacement, political violence, and the inner lives of people caught between cultures. In the Country of Men (2006) tells the story of a nine-year-old boy in 1970s Tripoli watching his family unravel under Qaddafi’s rule. Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011) follows a young man obsessed with his father’s vanishing.
My Friends (2024) is Matar’s most recent novel, tracing the lives of three Libyan friends studying in London during the 1984 Libyan embassy siege and the decades that follow. Each book stands alone, but together they form a body of work that maps the psychological terrain of exile with rare precision.