In this hauntingly beautiful short novel, set in Tripoli in wake of Khadafy's 1969 revolution, Hisham Matar shows the bewilderment and fear of the Libyan people through the eyes of nine-year-old Suleiman, who looks back at his childhood as an adult living in Cairo. Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.  (NAF53, $12.00)

Ondaatje Prize