Return, The

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An extraordinary memoir of a son’s search for his father and the return to a homeland he never thought he’d see again Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. He still does not know for certain whether his father is alive or dead. Twenty years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was able to go back to his homeland for the first time. In his heartbreaking, illuminating memoir he describes his return to a country and a family he thought he would never see again. The Return is the story of three generations of a Libyan family. It is the story of how that family lived through war, dictatorship, exile and revolution and somehow survived. It is an extraordinary book. ’Matar is beginning to do for the Arab experience what the likes of Salman Rushdie have done for the sub-continent’ - The Times Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He has lived in London since 1986. His debut novel In the Country of Men has been published in twenty-eight languages and won numerous international prizes as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006, the Guardian First Book Award and the Index on Censorship Book Award. Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published in 2011 to rave reviews from authors such as Michael Frayn, Roddy Doyle and Ahdaf Soueif.

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