Libyan Hisham Matar: "Once Upon a Life"

This is a piece by the Libyan writer Hisham Matar that appeared in The Observer today. I'm looking forward to his new novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance. His first novel, In the Country of Men, is one of the best novels that I read in a long time. I blogged about it earlier here, and I teach it every opportunity I have. Everybody should read it. Then people will understand while Gaddafi must go. The brutality of his regime is captured brilliantly and so so movingly by Matar's fiction.