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From the author of In the Country of Men, a Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father’s disappearance.
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime’s most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. “Hope,” as he writes, “is cunning and persistent.”
Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells are empty and there is no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returns with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he’d go back to again. The Return is the story of what he found there. It is at once an exquisite meditation on history, politics, and art, a brilliant portrait of a nation and a people on the cusp of change, and a disquieting depiction of the brutal legacy of absolute power. Above all, it is a universal tale of loss and love and of one family’s life. Hisham Matar asks the harrowing question: How does one go on living in the face of a loved one’s uncertain fate?
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##死者仍然和我们共同活在这个世界上，我们的悲痛，不过是为了应对身体上的死亡。时间与空间都是无限的，生命不是一次性的事件，因此“他已经死了”这样的宣布是不准确的。
评分##Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked, to which of my sorrows should I yield.
评分##归去 听书所得
评分##作者父亲的“档案”被暴政和时间抹去了，又在所有认识他的人那里变成了各种故事。一个人的缺席最后在别人的回忆里变成了鲜活的存在。如果回去意味着珍视的过去面目全非，那么寻找的意义是什么。
评分##笔触极其细腻。封面上的油画是法国马奈的杰作The Execution of Emperor Maximilian. 在父亲被绑架失踪后，作者发现自己无法在美术馆长时间停留，于是他每天到伦敦住所附近的国家美术馆待十五分钟，只看一幅画，看完一幅画往往要花好多天。许多年后当他几乎确认父亲遇难的日期，翻开日记他发现那天他反常地睡到中午才起床，到美术馆后决定结束上一幅看了几个月的画，无意识间选择开始看这幅与他父亲的遭遇相呼应的作品。即使在父亲失踪三十年后，写这本书时作者也没有找到任何有关他父亲结局的确切证据，最后令他不得不接受的，就是这一命运的暗示。书中的返乡之旅，是在利比亚推翻卡扎菲之后短暂的和平时期，一切都充满希望，然而这一切稍纵即逝。不知道作者在面对那之后直到现在的乱局，又是怎样的一种痛苦。
评分##归去 听书所得
评分##2017年传记类普利策奖获奖作品。作者用不长的篇幅，娓娓讲述了自己家族随着利比亚近百年国族命运沉浮的历史：从意大利的侵略和殖民，到对上校政权的拥护，失望与反抗，直至茉莉花风暴席卷下的革命。作者的叙述少有激昂之处，但是处处都饱浸着他对彼人彼土的深沉感情。尤其是在父亲这条主线上，透过平实质朴的文字，读者可以真切感受到一个残缺的灵魂在放弃和希望间挣扎撕扯的切肤之痛 - "Certainty is better than hope." "As long as he is not home, he is unknown everywhere".
评分##归去 听书所得
评分##hisham matar老粉了 虽然这本得了大奖 还是喜欢他的小说
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