Hisham Matar Libros Populares
Hisham Matar Biografía y Hechos
The Return es una memoria de Hisham Matar publicada por primera vez en junio de 2016.[3] Las memorias se centran en el regreso de Matar a su Libia natal en 2012 para buscar la verdad detrás de la desaparición en 1990 de su padre, un destacado disidente político del régimen de Gadafi. Ganó el Premio Pulitzer 2017 de Biografía o Autobiografía,[4] el Premio inaugural del Libro PEN/Jean Stein 2017[5] y el Premio Folio 2017, convirtiéndose en el primer libro de no ficción en hacerlo.[6] Sinopsis En 1990, el padre de Hisham Matar, un destacado crítico de la dictadura de Muammar Gaddafi, fue secuestrado por agentes de Gaddafi y encarcelado en Libia. Matar nunca vio a su padre después de eso. Las memorias siguen el regreso de Matar a Libia en 2012, luego de la muerte de Gadafi, para averiguar qué le sucedió a su padre.[7] Recepción Respuesta crítica The Return fue aclamado por la crítica.[6] Fue nombrado como uno de los 10 mejores libros de 2016 por los editores de The New York Times Book Review[8] y The Washington Post.[9] Escribiendo para The Guardian, los escritores Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, Blake Morrison, Rupert Thomson, Lucy Hughes-Hallett y Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lo nombraron como uno de sus libros favoritos de 2016, y Adichie señaló que "la conmovió". y le enseñó [a ella] sobre el amor y el hogar".[10][11] Escribiendo para The New York Times, la crítica ganadora del Premio Pulitzer Michiko Kakutani seleccionó el libro como uno de sus 10 libros principales de 2016, describiéndolo como parte "historia de detectives", parte "historia del exilio" y parte "historia de lo que sucedió en Libia y el Medio Oriente".[12] Premios The Return ganó el Premio Pulitzer 2017Biografía o Autobiografía[4] y el Premio Folio 2017, convirtiéndose en el primer libro de no ficción en hacerlo.[6] También ganó el Premio inaugural del libro PEN / Jean Stein 2017[5] y el Premio a la mejor biografía de Slightly Foxed 2016.[3] Las memorias fueron finalistas para el Premio Baillie Gifford 2016,[13] Premio Costa Biografía 2016,[14] Premio Nacional del Círculo de Críticos del Libro 2017[15] y Premio del Libro Los Angeles Times 2017.[16] Referencias Enlaces externos Página oficial de Penguin Random House. Descubre los libros populares de Hisham Matar. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Hisham Matar
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Travellers
Helon Habila'Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not ...
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Atmospheric Pressure (Storycuts)
Su Tong & Howard GoldblattThe train was late, and the wind was blowing Meng's coat open in the snow. With no sign of his cousin, he needed somewhere to stay the night. An old man enticed him to a secondrate...
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Weeping Willow (Storycuts)
Su Tong & Howard GoldblattWeeping Willow was a place that survived by serving longdistance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, b...
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Summary of Hisham Matar's The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had considered never returning to Libya in ...
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Eva and Eve
Julie MetzIn this unforgettable and “essential feminist memoir of women’s lives” (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths...
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In The Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and ...
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East West Street
Philippe SandsTHE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQWINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A monumental achievem...
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Home Thoughts
Tim ParksJulia has left home. She has gone to Italy. She has left her lover, her job, her flat, the closelyknit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And the motley group of expat...
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My Dad Was Nearly James Bond
Des BishopFor years acclaimed comedian Des Bishop wanted to write a show about his father. Mike Bishop was a model and actor who gave up that life to become a hardworking man of the suburbs ...
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Where Rivers Part
Kao Kalia YangA mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the author’s incredible mother who survived, and helped her...
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The Snows of Yesteryear
Gregor RezzoriThe Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in presentday Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portr...
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Torture Team
Philippe SandsAfter 9/11. George W. Bush's administration declared that they were going to have to work through 'the dark side'. And they did: they turned their backs on international law and on...
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Lives Between The Lines
Michael VatikiotisIn Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the ...
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Salt Houses
Hala Alyan'A piercingly elegant novel . . . with the power to both break and mend your heart.' Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane'Epic in scope and uniquely relevant in its concern for di...
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The White Road
Edmund de Waal‘Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first’A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might sur...
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In the Country of Men
Hisham MatarNineyearold 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 ...
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Motherlands
Amaryllis GacioppoA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A remarkable literary debut . . . Part memoir, part travelogue, Motherlands is ultimately an investigation of how we come to understand the past ...
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Lost to the World
Shahbaz TaseerIn late August of 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore, Pakistan when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement o...
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The Shoemaker and his Daughter
Conor O'CleryWINNER OF THE 2020 MICHEL DÉON PRIZE'O'Clery takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia... An arresting and evocative story' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland'A tour de force .....
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This is Where We Live
Janelle BrownLife is beautiful for Claudia and Jeremy. They are a young, bohemian couple whose hard work in both the film and music world is finally paying off. Claudia's first film is in the c...
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The Concubine of Shanghai
Hong YingChina, 1907. Sixteenyearold orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her fro...
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What If...?
Mumford , Sally & Mackinnon , Emma & Sally MumfordWhat if ......Your front tooth is knocked out?...You are staying at a friend's house and by mistake you break something?...You come home from school and you smell gas?...Your hamst...
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Secret Son
Laila LalamiWhen a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that ni...
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The Line Becomes A River
Francisco CantuShortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a MexicanAmerican US Border Patrol guard‘Stunningly good… The best thing I’ve read for ages...
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In Praise of Hatred
Khaled Khalifa & Leri Price1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safa...
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The Monk of Mokha
Dave EggersFrom the bestselling author of The Circle the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni cof...
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The Parade
Dave EggersFrom the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.'Tightly written, carefully desi...
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Other Names for Love
Taymour SoomroOn the train from Karachi, as dusk begins to fall, Fahad's dreams of his summer in London are fading. He is headed to Abad, the family's feudal estate, where his father intends to ...
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Another Day of Life
Ryszard Kapuściński & William Brand'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For mo...
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The Rooster House
Victoria BelimA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller'A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt me' HELEN MACDONALD'Marvellously vivid...
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The Outsider
Albert Camus & Sandra SmithMeursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increas...
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They Shall Not Grow Old (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlThey Shall Not Grow Old is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In They Shall Not Grow Old, Roald Dahl, one of the world's fa...
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The Ratline
Philippe SandsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF EAST WEST STREETAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hun...
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Wunderkind
Carson McCullers'A Wunderkind a Wunderkind a Wunderkind. The syllables would come out rolling in the deep German way, roar against her ears and then fall to a murmur...'Writing about outcasts, dr...
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Crawling At Night
Nani PowerNewly arrived in New York, Ito is a literate yet tonguetied sushi chef who recites haiku in his head as he labours over restaurant shoppinglists. Alone in his apartment at night, h...
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Small World
Matt BeaumontFriends, family, workmates. The woman you see at the bus stop every morning; the man who reaches for the last newspaper just before you get to it. Everyone you meet, and some you n...
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Good to a Fault
Marina EndicottAbsorbed in her own failings, 43yearold Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother, Lo...
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Homo Irrealis
André AcimanThe bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.The irre...