MY PICKS

摘要

Matar's debut novel, In the Country of Men, won six international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writer's Prize (Europe and South Asia) for Best First Novel and the inaugural Arab American Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Man Booker, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. Oh, and I found it searing, evocative, and original. Here is Matar's second work, featuring an 11-year-old born in exile after his parents flee revolutionary upheaval.