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.
Biografie
Hisham Matar wurde 1970 in New York City geboren; seine Eltern stammen aus Libyen. Er wuchs in Tripolis und, nach der Emigration der Familie, in Kairo auf. Seit 1986 lebt Hisham Matar in London. Hisham Matars Debüt, das in 22 Sprachen übersetzt ist, wurde für die Shortlist des Man Booker Prize 2006 und des The Guardian First Book Award nominiert. 2007 wurde Hisham Matar ausgezeichnet mit dem Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, dem Commonwealth Writers' Prize, dem Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori, dem Premio Internazionale Flaiano und dem Arab American Book Award.
