My Friends

A Tender, Luminous Novel About Friendship, Memory, and What We Leave Behind

From one of literature's most celebrated voices comes a quietly devastating story of connection, loss, and the bonds that define us. My Friends by Hisham Matar is a deeply moving novel about three Libyan men living in exile in London — and the friendship that sustains them across decades of displacement, longing, and change.

Imagine a book that reads like a long, honest conversation with someone who truly understands what it means to be far from home — to carry a country inside you while building a life somewhere else. That's the rare, intimate world Hisham Matar creates in these pages.

Why This Novel Stays With You

• A beautifully restrained, deeply humane portrait of exile, identity, and belonging
• Three unforgettable characters whose friendship is tested by time, politics, and personal loss
• Hisham Matar's signature prose — precise, lyrical, and emotionally devastating
• A meditation on what it means to call a place home when home no longer exists as you knew it
• Essential reading for fans of literary fiction and anyone who has ever felt the pull of a life left behind

Published by Simon & Schuster, My Friends is a masterwork of contemporary literary fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return. Quiet, profound, and impossible to forget.