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’...
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?
作者简介
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Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth ...
Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano, and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York.
Power must know how fatigued human nature is, and how unready we are to listen, and how willing we are to settle for lies. Power must know that, ultimately, we would rather not know. Power must believe, given how things proceed, that the world was better made for the perpetrator than for those who arrive after the fact, seeking justice or accountability or truth. Power must see such attempts as pathetic, and yet the bereaved, the witness, the investigator and the chronicler cannot but try to make reason for the diabolical mess. (查看原文)
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
读毕，看到封面那幅马奈的画作，突然触发泪点。二十余载，他流亡海外，不知父亲生死。而他终究无法确定他父亲的死期。经过多方求证，他推测那是1996年6月29日，in the massacre of Abu Salim。那年，他父亲57岁，他25岁。那年那日，他远在伦敦，在National Gallery看到了马奈的...
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0 有用 Sean Gorilla 2020-03-16 23:26:01
冒昧地问一句，作者这样背景的人，对“故乡”的情感到底是怎么建立起来的？我觉得我和他无法共情。。。
0 有用 WooBaby 2019-10-07 18:25:46
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。
0 有用 豆友71133020 2018-10-06 18:17:22
已阅
0 有用 faustparody 2023-04-17 10:46:00 美国
Prof. Matar说他十一岁才开始学英语。自此，英文非母语写作的榜样又多一位
0 有用 headradio 2017-09-19 02:17:26
一段也许永远都无法解开的死亡之谜，一个家族几代人对暴政的抗争，一个国家动乱的近现代史
0 有用 brucas 2024-03-24 18:11:18 上海
居然忘记标了。可能是自我剖析最真诚最深刻的non-fiction作品之一。
0 有用 faustparody 2023-04-17 10:46:00 美国
Prof. Matar说他十一岁才开始学英语。自此，英文非母语写作的榜样又多一位
0 有用 别字大王 2021-04-10 15:07:02
emmmmm没啥意思
0 有用 fugue 2020-08-17 15:05:34
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
1 有用 lambda 2020-08-07 01:51:15
hisham matar老粉了 虽然这本得了大奖 还是喜欢他的小说