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From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of answers to his father's disappearance. In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballa Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning". This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power.words : 74051

Who reads The Return : Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between?

Author

Matar, Hisham

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Canada

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812994834

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

4.17 / 5 (2,161 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14