Tyuioooooo

Written by Hisham Matar

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages

Publisher: The Dial Press

On Sale: January 30, 2007

Price: $22.00

ISBN: 978-0-385-34042-7 (0-385-34042-7)

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

TEACHER'S GUIDE

NOTE TO TEACHERS

Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men is a strikingly balanced novel. While set within the complicated and highly charged political landscape of Libya in the late �70s (the setting of the author’s own early childhood), the story’s narrator is a young boy still preoccupied with games, just beginning to open his eyes to the possibility of love, still considering — and misinterpreting — what it means to be a man. By constructing the story around this strange interplay of innocence and corruption, the author is able to open up a dialogue about duality, addressing both the light and dark elements of humanity and exploring an impressive range of themes such