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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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##Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked, to which of my sorrows should I yield.
评分##R4 read by Khalid Abdalla. NY-- Tripoli, Libya-- Cairo--London
评分##hisham matar老粉了 虽然这本得了大奖 还是喜欢他的小说
评分##Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked, to which of my sorrows should I yield.
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##“I envy the finality of funerals”
评分##Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked, to which of my sorrows should I yield.
评分##“I envy the finality of funerals”
评分##逝者已逝。活着的人，言道其尚存，这般关于死的感受性描述，充其量只是亲人的placebo，无益于我们对死的理解。当然，我赞成作者关于人在时间与空间序列上对他人的影响的判断——生命是河，每个人都是过客，但过客值得纪念与缅怀的地方，恰恰在于曾让这条河激荡起涟漪，泛起过浪花。承认父亲仍然尚在人间，对我们这些旁观者而言，实在无足轻重，个人的歇斯底里不足为外人道。但回来本身，是富有象征意义的。年龄越大，越会发觉生命是个轮回，那种超脱规律与生命进程的“失控”是很少的，甚至在一个更绵长的时间范畴中，都是某种重复。拒绝与卡扎菲儿子的媾和，这样的政治合作可以再进一步拓展。
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