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El regreso/ The Return

El regreso/ The Return

by Hisham Matar
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/06/2017

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GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER

El autor de Solo en el mundo e Historia de una desaparicion emprende en este relato autobiografico una infatigable busqueda de la verdad y nos invita a compartir sus emociones mas intimas, desde las luminosas estampas de una infancia mediterranea en Tripoli y Bengasi hasta un aspero presente donde se mezclan la ilusion, la rabia y la impotencia.

En marzo de 2012, treinta y tres anos despues de haber pisado por ultima vez la tierra de sus origenes, el autor de este libro regreso a Libia junto a su madre y su mujer. El derrocamiento de Gadafi habia abierto un tiempo nuevo en el que cabia la esperanza de refundar una sociedad devastada por los abominables crimenes de la dictadura, recuperando un sistema de valores basado en la justicia y el respeto por la vida humana.

Sin embargo, mas alla de sonar con un pais en libertad y progreso, en la mente de Hisham bullia el deseo de cerrar una herida profunda y dolorosa que habia marcado su vida y la de su familia. En 1990, su padre, Jaballa Matar, un prospero y culto empresario, amante de la poesia y lider de la disidencia en el exilio, habia sido secuestrado en El Cairo y confinado en una prision libia. Seis anos mas tarde, las escasas noticias que llegaban se interrumpieron: el rastro de Jaballa se perdio definitivamente.

Transitando con maestria entre las convulsiones personales y los acontecimientos historicos, este sincero y poliedrico relato autobiografico no se limita a tratar de comprender las aflicciones del pasado, sino que senala una y otra vez el consuelo reparador que ofrecen el amor y la amistad, la literatura y el arte.

La critica ha dicho...
"!Brillante! [...] El relato de la busqueda de su padre es meticuloso, incluso frio, pero su rabia es destemplada e irreconciliable. Con gran destreza, Hisham Matar da forma a la perdida y dota de universalidad esta particular experiencia de la desolacion." -Hilary Mantel

"Un libro fascinante sobre el amor y la esperanza, y al mismo tiempo una conmovedora reflexion sobre el dolor y la perdida. Hisham Matar traza un retrato memorable de una familia en el exilio y, al mismo tiempo, analiza con sutileza e inteligencia la politica de Libia. [...] Seguramente se convertira en un clasico." - Colm Toibin

"Matar escribe con el ojo de un novelista para los detalles fisicos y emocionales, y el tacto de un periodista para describir instantes y lugares. La prosa es concisa, economica, esta tallada con precision; la estructura narrativa es eliptica, casi musical." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Sabio, aterrador y emocionante." -Zadie Smith

DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing-one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances. Hisham would never see him again, but he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. Twenty-two years later, he returned to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father's disappearance. The Return is the story of what he found there.

The Pulitzer Prize citation hailed The Return as "a first-person elegy for home and father." Transforming his personal quest for answers into a brilliantly told universal tale of hope and resilience, Matar has given us an unforgettable work with a powerful human question at its core: How does one go on living in the face of unthinkable loss?

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times * The Washington Post * The Guardian * Financial Times

"A tale of mighty love, loyalty and courage. It simply must be read."-The Spectator (U.K.)

"Wise and agonizing and thrilling to read."-Zadie Smith

"[An] eloquent memoir . . . at once a suspenseful detective story about a writer investigating his father's fate . . . and a son's efforts to come to terms with his father's ghost, who has haunted more than half his life by his absence."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"This outstanding book . . . roves back and forth in time with a freedom that conceals the intricate precision of its art."-The Wall Street Journal
ISBN:
9788498387766
9788498387766
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-06-2017
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country of origin:
Spain
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
221x137x18mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He is the author of two novels, In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance and a work of non-fiction, The Return. In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Critics Book Circle Award in the US and won six international literary awards. The Return won a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the Folio Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards around the world including the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. Hisham Matar lives in London.

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