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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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##hisham matar老粉了 虽然这本得了大奖 还是喜欢他的小说
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##R4 read by Khalid Abdalla. NY-- Tripoli, Libya-- Cairo--London
评分在你过着当下小小的你的生活的时候，这世界时时刻刻在发生着超出你理解底线的事情。
评分##归去 听书所得
评分##归去 听书所得
评分##“I envy the finality of funerals”
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
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