![]() ![]() Matar provides an intimate and absorbing account of the complex political events that would eventually lead to Gaddafi’s downfall. Though his eventual whereabouts would remain uncertain, he was likely held prisoner in the notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, where he may have perished in the 1996 massacre of over 1,200 prisoners. A decade later, while the author was a student in London, his father was kidnapped in the streets of Cairo by forces in the Libyan government. ![]() Jaballa Matar had formerly worked for the Libyan delegation to the United States yet later became an influential political dissident who, in reacting against Muammar Gaddafi’s revolutionary regime, was forced to flee with his family from their home in Tripoli to Cairo. ![]() Novelist Matar ( Anatomy of a Disappearance, 2011, etc.) returns to his native Libya in 2012 following a three-decade exile.Īt the center of this moving and vividly documented memoir is the author’s quest to find answers to his father’s disappearance in 1990. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |