Books set in Libya (21)
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Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her bright yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina holiday resort, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri's father with whom Mona falls in love and who she will eventually marry. And their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he longs to get his father out of the way. However, Nuri will soon regret what he wished for. And, as he and his stepmother's w... continue
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Catalogue of a Private Life by Najwa Bin Shatwan EN
LibyaDescription:
A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has ... continue
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Der Araber von morgen by Riad Sattouf DE
Description:
Ein wunderschönes Comic-Memoir, lustig, berührend, spannend. Eine (Zeit-)Reise von Syrien über Libyen nach Frankreich.
"Arabischer Frühling, Umsturz in Libyen und Krieg in Syrien. Als Reaktion darauf greift der 36-jährige französische Zeichner und Filmemacher Riad Sattouf zum Stift und erzählt von seiner Kindheit in der arabischen Welt: ein blondgelockter Junge, Sohn einer Französin und eines Syrers, wächst in Libyen und Syrien auf. Die Graphic Novel vom blonden Araber im Land der Diktatoren stürmte in Frankreich die Bestsellerlisten wi... continue
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Fugitive Atlas : Poems by Khaled Mattawa EN
Description:
Khaled Mattawa’s poetry contains “the complexity of a transnational identity” (MacArthur Fellowship citation) Fugitive Atlas is a sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations, and ecological degradation, an acute and probing journey through a world in upheaval. Khaled Mattawa’s chorus of speakers finds moments of profound solace in searching for those lost—in elegy and prayer—even when the power of poetry and faith seems incapable of providing salvation. With extraordinary formal virtuosity and global scope, these poems turn not to lament for those regions charted as t... continue
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Gaddafi's Harem by Annick Cojean EN
FranceDescription:
This shocking and moving investigation into the hidden abuses perpetrated by Colonel Gaddafi reveals an appalliing private life.
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Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni EN
Description:
Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society.
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Homeless Rats by Ahmed Fagih EN
Description:
Homeless Rats is a battle between man and beast: a group of people from the Southern desert oasis of Mizda, fleeing the three year drought which has blighted their hometown, sets up camp in a new area where they hope to find work harvesting barley. To their dismay, when they arrive they find the crops decimated - jerboas have already harvested the barley and hidden it away in their burrows
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Illegal by Eoin Colfer EN
IrelandDescription:
A powerfully moving graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants. Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life--the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and f... continue
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In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn’t he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going into that strange build... continue
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