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The Return


A work of Non-fiction


Subgenres:

  • Memoir,
  • Family Relationships,
  • Libya
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  • Memoirs driven by the search for a missing parent
  • Personal stories set against political upheaval in Libya
  • Reflections on exile, homecoming, and unresolved grief
Publisher Description

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing—one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. 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. The Pulitzer Prize citation hailed The Return as "a first-person elegy for home and father." 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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