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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Hisham Matar

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#152 of 3,809 books · #76 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2017). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

The Return won the Pulitzer Prize, was named one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances. Hisham would never see him again, but he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. Twenty-two years later, he returned to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father's disappearance. The Return is the story of what he found there. Transforming his personal quest for answers into a brilliantly told universal tale of hope and resilience, Matar has given us an unforgettable work with a powerful human question at its core: How does one go on living in the face of unthinkable loss?

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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13
9780812985085
Topics
Father-son relationshipsLibya's political repressionExile and search for truth

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