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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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###83 悲伤但不沉重，我想这也是作者的心态了吧。流亡作家和移民作家读得越多，对自己和国家之间关系的检视就越深刻且不可避免地越痛苦。
评分##R4 read by Khalid Abdalla. NY-- Tripoli, Libya-- Cairo--London
评分##花了一天半的时间几乎是一口气读完了，What a story... | I wish at least I had some happy man/ as father, growing old in his own house--/ but unknown death and silence are the fate/ of him | 那些无知的人类 何时才能为恶行忏悔
评分##花了一天半的时间几乎是一口气读完了，What a story... | I wish at least I had some happy man/ as father, growing old in his own house--/ but unknown death and silence are the fate/ of him | 那些无知的人类 何时才能为恶行忏悔
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##R4 read by Khalid Abdalla. NY-- Tripoli, Libya-- Cairo--London
评分##想起那个一直赞颂卡扎菲的老领导。就在他们被接去沙漠中吃烤肉的同时，还有那么多人被独裁者轻易抹去存在过的痕迹。
评分##归去 听书所得
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