From the author of In the Country of Men, a Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father’s disappearance. When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime’...(展开全部)

Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth ...(展开全部)

Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth ...(展开全部)

In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the two hundred years that followed this First Crusade, Islam and the West fought for dominion of the Holy Land, clashing in a succession of chillingly brutal wars, ...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 托马斯·阿斯布里奇是伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院的中世纪史副教授。除本书外，主要著作有《最伟大的骑士：威廉·马歇尔传》（The Greatest Knight, 2015）、《第一次十字军东征新史》（The First Crusade ：A New History, 2004）。 ◎ 译者简介 马千，四川大学比较文学 与世界文学硕士，齐齐哈尔大学讲 师，著有《医院骑士团全史》，译作 《1453──君士坦丁堡的陷落》。