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 sinopsis y comentarios

    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 ...

  • Atmospheric Pressure (Storycuts) sinopsis y comentarios

    Atmospheric Pressure (Storycuts)

    Su Tong & Howard Goldblatt

    The 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...

  • Weeping Willow (Storycuts) sinopsis y comentarios

    Weeping Willow (Storycuts)

    Su Tong & Howard Goldblatt

    Weeping 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...

  • Summary of Hisham Matar's The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner) sinopsis y comentarios

    Summary of Hisham Matar's The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    Everest Media

    Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had considered never returning to Libya in ...

  • Eva and Eve sinopsis y comentarios

    Eva and Eve

    Julie Metz

    In 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...

  • In The Garden of Beasts sinopsis y comentarios

    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 ...

  • East West Street sinopsis y comentarios

    East West Street

    Philippe Sands

    THE 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...

  • Home Thoughts sinopsis y comentarios

    Home Thoughts

    Tim Parks

    Julia 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...

  • My Dad Was Nearly James Bond sinopsis y comentarios

    My Dad Was Nearly James Bond

    Des Bishop

    For 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 ...

  • Where Rivers Part sinopsis y comentarios

    Where Rivers Part

    Kao Kalia Yang

    A 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...

  • The Snows of Yesteryear sinopsis y comentarios

    The Snows of Yesteryear

    Gregor Rezzori

    The 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...

  • Torture Team sinopsis y comentarios

    Torture Team

    Philippe Sands

    After 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...

  • Lives Between The Lines sinopsis y comentarios

    Lives Between The Lines

    Michael Vatikiotis

    In 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 ...

  • Salt Houses sinopsis y comentarios

    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...

  • The White Road sinopsis y comentarios

    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...

  • In the Country of Men sinopsis y comentarios

    In the Country of Men

    Hisham Matar

    Nineyearold 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 ...

  • Motherlands sinopsis y comentarios

    Motherlands

    Amaryllis Gacioppo

    A 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 ...

  • Lost to the World sinopsis y comentarios

    Lost to the World

    Shahbaz Taseer

    In 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...

  • The Shoemaker and his Daughter sinopsis y comentarios

    The Shoemaker and his Daughter

    Conor O'Clery

    WINNER 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 .....

  • This is Where We Live sinopsis y comentarios

    This is Where We Live

    Janelle Brown

    Life 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...

  • The Concubine of Shanghai sinopsis y comentarios

    The Concubine of Shanghai

    Hong Ying

    China, 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...

  • What If...? sinopsis y comentarios

    What If...?

    Mumford , Sally & Mackinnon , Emma & Sally Mumford

    What 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...

  • Secret Son sinopsis y comentarios

    Secret Son

    Laila Lalami

    When 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...

  • The Line Becomes A River sinopsis y comentarios

    The Line Becomes A River

    Francisco Cantu

    Shortlisted 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...

  • In Praise of Hatred sinopsis y comentarios

    In Praise of Hatred

    Khaled Khalifa & Leri Price

    1980s 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...

  • The Monk of Mokha sinopsis y comentarios

    The Monk of Mokha

    Dave Eggers

    From 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...

  • The Parade sinopsis y comentarios

    The Parade

    Dave Eggers

    From 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...

  • Other Names for Love sinopsis y comentarios

    Other Names for Love

    Taymour Soomro

    On 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 ...

  • Another Day of Life sinopsis y comentarios

    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...

  • The Rooster House sinopsis y comentarios

    The Rooster House

    Victoria Belim

    A 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...

  • The Outsider sinopsis y comentarios

    The Outsider

    Albert Camus & Sandra Smith

    Meursault 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...

  • They Shall Not Grow Old (A Roald Dahl Short Story) sinopsis y comentarios

    They Shall Not Grow Old (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

    Roald Dahl

    They 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...

  • The Ratline sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ratline

    Philippe Sands

    THE 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...

  • Wunderkind sinopsis y comentarios

    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...

  • Crawling At Night sinopsis y comentarios

    Crawling At Night

    Nani Power

    Newly 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...

  • Small World sinopsis y comentarios

    Small World

    Matt Beaumont

    Friends, 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...

  • Good to a Fault sinopsis y comentarios

    Good to a Fault

    Marina Endicott

    Absorbed 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...

  • Homo Irrealis sinopsis y comentarios

    Homo Irrealis

    André Aciman

    The 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...