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S'està carregant… In the Country of Men (2006)de Hisham Matar
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Con nueve años de edad, Solimán empieza a percibir que, más allá de los juegos infantiles, existe otro mundo fuera del seno protector de su familia. Cuando su padre se marcha de viaje y Solimán se queda como hombre de la casa, un encuentro fortuito y confuso rompe por primera vez la confianza ciega en sus progenitores. A partir de ese momento, el mundo se vuelve para Solimán un lugar plagado de incertidumbres. Ya ni siquiera le consuela refugiarse en el regazo de su madre, quien, en un momento de debilidad, le confiesa la dolorosa historia de su propia infancia. Así, Solimán descubrirá nuevas palabras como "traición", "violencia" o "perdón", e incapaz de asimilar los códigos que rigen el mundo de los adultos, tomará algunas decisiones con terribles consecuencias. In 1979 nine year old Suleiman was living a boy’s life in Libya, under Muammar Gaddafi who had come to power in 1969. Increasingly, his pro-democracy father began to be absent on ‘business trips’ although Suleiman caught sight of him in town. And Suleiman’s mother began to rely more and more on the mysterious medicine she got covertly from the pharmacy – the medicine that left her lying in bed for days at a time, and which neighbors could use as a weapon against her. As Gaddafi cracked down on the dissident movement, it became necessary to burn all Sulieman’s father’s books. Then a neighbor and the father of his best friend was arrested and hung publicly on state television. Suleiman’s life would never be the same – and the one book he saved of his father’s – his father’s favorite - could become his father's undoing. Fascinating and illuminating of the politics of the time. Hisham Matar beschreibt in seinem Roman das Leben in Libyen zur Zeit Gaddafis. Die Geschehnisse um zwei Familien, deren Väter sich für die Demokratie einsetzen, wird aus der Sicht eines 9jährigen erzählt, Suleiman, eher ungewöhnlich: ein Einzelkind. Die Geschichte spielt 1979, also 10 Jahre nach dem Militärputsch und 2 Jahre nach der Ausrufung der sozialistischen Volksrepublik. Aus der Sicht des Neunjährigen steht die große Politik nicht im Zentrum, aber es wird eindrücklich beschrieben, welche Ängste die notwendige Heimlichtuerei der Eltern auslösen. Eindrücklich auch die Szenen, in denen die "Krankheit" der Mutter beschrieben wird, wenn der Vater mal wieder längere Zeit nicht zu Hause ist. Da Suleiman nicht versteht (nicht verstehen kann), was um ihn herum passiert, verhält er sich aus einem Bedürfnis der Zugehörigkeit heraus nicht immer so, wie man das von einem "strahlenden Helden" erwarten würde, was dem Roman aber auch eine eindrückliche Authentizität verleiht. Von mir eine klare Leseempfehlung, mit der Option, die Geschichte Libyens in weiteren Bänden weiter zu verfolgen. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman's days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father's constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn't he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going into that strange building with the green shutters? Why did he lie? Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand-where the sound of the telephone ringing becomes a portent of grave danger; where his mother frantically burns his father's cherished books; where a stranger full of sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day; where his best friend's father can disappear overnight, next to be seen publicly interrogated on state television. In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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