In The Country Of Men

I absolutely love Hisham Matar's 'In The Country Of Men' - a beautiful book about growing up in - and being exiled from - Gaddafi's Libya. Brilliant stuff; just picked it up but hooked from the first sentence in:

"I am recalling now that last summer before I was sent away. It was 1979, and the sun was everywhere. Tripoli lay still and brilliant beneath it. Every person, animal and ant went in desperate search for shade, those occasional grey patches of mercy carved into the white of eveything".