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?
在你過著當下小小的你的生活的時候,這世界時時刻刻在發生著超齣你理解底綫的事情。
評分##Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked, to which of my sorrows should I yield.
評分##“I envy the finality of funerals”
評分##R4 read by Khalid Abdalla. NY-- Tripoli, Libya-- Cairo--London
評分在你過著當下小小的你的生活的時候,這世界時時刻刻在發生著超齣你理解底綫的事情。
評分##迴不去也割不斷的傢鄉。離開三十年但一直未曾離開的父親。Hisham Matar的句子如詩,雖是傷痕文學,讀來卻很享受。默默地對班加西的南地中海風情心生好感。
評分##想起那個一直贊頌卡紮菲的老領導。就在他們被接去沙漠中吃烤肉的同時,還有那麼多人被獨裁者輕易抹去存在過的痕跡。
評分##hisham matar老粉瞭 雖然這本得瞭大奬 還是喜歡他的小說
評分##已閱
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