具體描述
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?
用戶評價
##R4 read by Khalid Abdalla. NY-- Tripoli, Libya-- Cairo--London
評分##對政局，動蕩和死亡有思考，但是並沒有引起我這樣一個中國大陸讀者的共鳴。
評分##筆觸極其細膩。封麵上的油畫是法國馬奈的傑作The Execution of Emperor Maximilian. 在父親被綁架失蹤後，作者發現自己無法在美術館長時間停留，於是他每天到倫敦住所附近的國傢美術館待十五分鍾，隻看一幅畫，看完一幅畫往往要花好多天。許多年後當他幾乎確認父親遇難的日期，翻開日記他發現那天他反常地睡到中午纔起床，到美術館後決定結束上一幅看瞭幾個月的畫，無意識間選擇開始看這幅與他父親的遭遇相呼應的作品。即使在父親失蹤三十年後，寫這本書時作者也沒有找到任何有關他父親結局的確切證據，最後令他不得不接受的，就是這一命運的暗示。書中的返鄉之旅，是在利比亞推翻卡紮菲之後短暫的和平時期，一切都充滿希望，然而這一切稍縱即逝。不知道作者在麵對那之後直到現在的亂局，又是怎樣的一種痛苦。
評分##歸去 聽書所得
評分##Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked, to which of my sorrows should I yield.
評分##一段也許永遠都無法解開的死亡之謎，一個傢族幾代人對暴政的抗爭，一個國傢動亂的近現代史
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##歸去 聽書所得
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。
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