IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN
By Hisham Matar
Penguin/Viking. 245 pages. £12.99
ISBN 0 670 91639 0
When so many of the world’s Christians are living as a despised and persecuted minority, and when the media at large has little concern to comment on their fate, it is good to find a novel which brings the horrors of an oppressive, persecuting regime to our attention.
While the characters in this novel are not Christians, and are persecuted for their political beliefs not their faith, we still see into the darkness of a violent, totalitarian state.
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