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One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

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