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A masterful, intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURNKhaled and Mustafa meet at university in two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.'I have always admired Matar's tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice' Elif Shafak

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzerpreis und dem Geschwister-Scholl-Preis »Ein literarischer Essay über Familie, Verlust und Trauer - und schon jetzt eines der herausragenden Bücher des Jahres.« Jobst-Ulrich Brand, Focus Hisham Matar wuchs als Kind in Libyen auf, doch die Diktatur unter Gaddafi hat seine Familie früh zerstört. Er selbst lebt seit langem in England, sein Vater wurde in das berüchtigtste Gefängnis von Libyen verschleppt. In dem kurzen Zeitfenster nach Gaddafis Sturz und vor dem neuen Bürgerkrieg kehrt Hisham Matar in seine Heimat zurück, um endlich vor Ort nach seinem Vater zu suchen. Sein Buch ist ein bewegendes Dokument. Ausstattung: Pepper: Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzerpreis

Shortly after completing his searing work of non-fiction, The Return, Hisham Matar set off for Siena, a city he had never visited before. His plan was to see the paintings of the Sienese school, to immerse himself in the work of artists he admired perhaps above all others. This month in Siena would be an extraordinary period in the life of this writer- an immersion in art, a consideration of grief and violence, an intimate encounter with the city and its inhabitants. Hisham Matar's short book is the story of how art can console and disturb in equal measure. It is a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and the human condition.

"Girandosi, guardò al di là della baia, e laggiù, certo, scivolando a intervalli regolari sulle onde, prima due lampi veloci, poi uno lungo e durevole, c'era la luce del Faro. L'avevano acceso". 1914. La signora Ramsay, serena e materna. Il signor Ramsay, brusco e severo. Insieme a loro, in vacanza sull'isola di Skye, ci sono gli otto figli e una nutrita schiera di amici. Una sera programmano una gita al Faro. Per James, il figlio più piccolo, quel faro lontano rappresenta una meta magica e sconosciuta, un luogo a lungo sognato. Ma trascorreranno dieci lunghi anni prima che i superstiti della famiglia Ramsay realizzino quel desiderio in una giornata che farà riaffiorare ricordi mai dimenticati e si trasformerà in un ultimo tentativo di riconciliazione. A partire da un episodio all'apparenza insignificante, Virginia Woolf costruisce un romanzo profondo e straordinario, un viaggio nel cuore di una famiglia, tra conflitti sotterranei, alleanze e tensioni che sopravvivono nel tempo. Un esperimento letterario, un'elegia ai fantasmi dell'infanzia, un caleidoscopio di punti di vista e pensieri che la nuova traduzione di Anna Nadotti restituisce in tutta la sua struggente poesia. Introduzione di Hisham Matar.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what it is to be human. Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, the fall of Gaddafi meant he was finally able to return to his homeland. In this moving memoir, the author takes us on an illuminating journey, both physical and psychological; a journey to find his father and rediscover his country.

Nel marzo del 2012, Hisham Matar torna in Libia dopo trentatre anni, un viaggio che segna il suo primo ritorno nella terra della sua infanzia, da cui è stato strappato dal rapimento del padre, Jaballa Matar, nel 1990. Jaballa, un oppositore del regime di Gheddafi, fu sequestrato e fatto sparire nella prigione di Abu Salim. Hisham, che all'epoca aveva diciannove anni, non ha mai smesso di cercarlo. Ventidue anni dopo, approfitta della speranza offerta dalla rivoluzione del 2011 per esplorare i luoghi della sua memoria e per confrontarsi con il passato. Questo viaggio diventa un percorso storico e affettivo, dove Hisham incontra familiari e amici che hanno condiviso la vita di Jaballa, recuperando un passato che risuona in lui. Le tappe del suo viaggio si intrecciano con la storia libica del ventesimo secolo, dalla resistenza all'occupazione italiana fino agli eventi recenti. In mezzo all'orrore, emerge la luce dell'arte e della bellezza come espressioni autentiche dell'umanità. Anche quando la speranza di ritrovare un padre vivo svanisce, Hisham riflette sulla complessità della sua esistenza: «Mio padre è morto ed è anche vivo. Vivo, come tutti viviamo, nell'indomani».

"Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, the fall of Gaddafi meant he was finally able to return to his homeland. In this moving memoir, the author takes us on an illuminating journey, both physical and psychological; a journey to find his father and rediscover his country. The Returnis at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what it is to be human."

Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood.

Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness her strange death leaves behind. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri's father with whom Mona falls in love and whom she will eventually marry. Their happiness consumes Nuri to the point at which he longs to get his father out of the way. However, Nuri will soon regret what he wished for. As the world he shares with his stepmother is shattered by events beyond their control, they both begin to realize how little they really knew about the man they loved. In a delicately wrought and beautifully tender voice, Hisham Matar's extraordinary new novel asks, When a loved one disappears how does his or her absence shape the lives of those who are left?