Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood.
'I am recalling now the last summer before I was sent away. It was 1979 and the sun was everywhere. Tripoli lay brilliant and still beneath it.'
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just an ordinary boy living in an ordinary house with ordinary parents. Or so he thinks. Then one day when his father is away on business - as he is regularly - Suleiman sees his father standing in the market square wearing sun glasses, and suddenly the safe ordered world he thought he knew is shattered.
In his father's continuing absence, Suleiman turns to his mother and learns of the wider world, of what it means to live under a brutal dictator whose agents follow your every move, listen to your every phone call, and take husbands and fathers from families any time they wish . . .
'A poetic and powerful account' Wall Street Journal
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