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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I had considered never returning to Libya in 2011. I was in New York, walking up Broadway, when the proposition presented itself. It seemed perfect, a thought my mind had manufactured independently.
#2 I had gone to New York the previous month to lecture on novels about exile and estrangement. But I had an older connection to the city. My parents had moved to Manhattan in the spring of 1970, when my father was appointed first secretary in the Libyan Mission to the United Nations.
#3 Qaddafi’s campaign to hunt down exiled critics extended to the families of dissidents. My only sibling, Ziad, was fifteen when he went off to boarding school in Switzerland. A few weeks later, mid-way through term, he returned to Cairo. He was called to the school’s office telephone and told to leave immediately and take the first train to Basle.
#4 When I was twelve, I needed to see an eye specialist. Mother put me on a plane and I flew alone from Cairo to Geneva, where Father was to meet me. He and I spoke on the telephone before I left for the airport. If for any reason you don’t see me in arrivals, go to the information desk and ask them to call out this name, he said.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669398363
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Hisham Matar's The Return Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had considered never returning to Libya in 2011. I was in New York, walking up Broadway, when the proposition presented itself. It seemed perfect, a thought my mind had manufactured independently.

#2

I had gone to New York the previous month to lecture on novels about exile and estrangement. But I had an older connection to the city. My parents had moved to Manhattan in the spring of 1970, when my father was appointed first secretary in the Libyan Mission to the United Nations.

#3

Qaddafi’s campaign to hunt down exiled critics extended to the families of dissidents. My only sibling, Ziad, was fifteen when he went off to boarding school in Switzerland. A few weeks later, mid-way through term, he returned to Cairo. He was called to the school’s office telephone and told to leave immediately and take the first train to Basle.

#4

When I was twelve, I needed to see an eye specialist. Mother put me on a plane and I flew alone from Cairo to Geneva, where Father was to meet me. He and I spoke on the telephone before I left for the airport. If for any reason you don’t see me in arrivals, go to the information desk and ask them to call out this name, he said.

#5

Father was kidnapped from our Cairo flat by the Egyptian secret police in 1990 and delivered to Qaddafi. He was taken to Abu Salim prison, in Tripoli, which was known as The Last Stop. In the mid-1990s, several people risked their lives to smuggle three of his letters to my family.

#6

In late August 2011, the last prisoner was released from Abu Salim prison. He had lost his memory, but was happy to be free. I wanted to ask about the picture, but I did not.

#7

The truth about Father’s death was finally revealed in October. He had been shot or hanged or starved or tortured to death. No one knows when, or those who know are dead or have escaped or are too frightened or indifferent to speak.

#8

I began to doubt my ability to return to Libya, and I was done with resistance. I was glad for New York’s indifference. I had always regarded Manhattan the way an orphan might think of the mother who had laid him on the doorstep of a mosque: it meant nothing to me but also everything.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1980, my family was living in Egypt. On several occasions as a child I would sit in my room with the atlas and try to calculate the number of kilometres between our flat and the border.