The past is another, dangerous country

Hisham Matar's beautiful first novel, "In the Country of Men" (Dial, $22), is set in Libya during the summer of 1979, when the regime of Colonel Qaddafi first penetrates the world of 9-year-old Suleiman with bewildering and terrifying force. A neighbo r is arrested; Suleiman's own father periodically disappears; the boy's house is raided and his mother becomes increasingly unstable. ... (Full article: 934 words)

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