Books like In the Country of Men
In Tripoli in 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman watches his dissident father vanish into Qaddafi's purges, and his mother drink to forget.
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The Return
Hisham Matar goes back to Libya after Qaddafi's fall, more than thirty years after his family left, to find out what happened to his father, a dissident who disappeared into a Tripoli prison.
A Crime in the Neighborhood
In the summer of 1972, in a Washington suburb, ten-year-old Marsha's father leaves her mother for her aunt, and a boy is murdered behind the local mall.
The Arab of the Future
A cartoonist's memoir of growing up between France, Libya, and Syria.
The Eye of the Sheep
Jimmy Flick, a boy who sees the world differently, lives with his loving mother and his violent father in a house in the suburbs of Melbourne.
The Appointment
A young woman in Ceaușescu's Romania rides the tram to another interrogation by the secret police, and on the way remembers how she came to be summoned.
Fortune Smiles
Six stories, among them two North Korean defectors struggling to adjust to life in Seoul and a former Stasi prison warden in Berlin who cannot admit what happened there.
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Raja, a philosophy teacher in his sixties, lives in Beirut with his formidable mother, and tells their story through Lebanon's civil war and everything after.
We Need New Names
Darling, ten, roams a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise with her friends, stealing guavas, until she goes to live with her aunt in Michigan.
A Golden Age
Rehana Haque, a widow in Dhaka, will do anything for her two grown children, who join the fight for Bangladesh's independence in 1971.
Please Look After Mom
When their sixty-nine-year-old mother vanishes in a crowded Seoul subway station, her husband and grown children search the city and realise how little they knew about her.
Gravel Heart
Salim grows up in Zanzibar in the 1970s, puzzled that his father has moved out of the family home, and is sent to study in London, where he lives with his uncle.
The Little Friend
Twelve years after her brother was found hanged in the family yard, a fierce twelve-year-old in 1970s Mississippi decides she knows who killed him and sets out for revenge.