The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between

By Hisham Matar

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Hisham Matar returns to Libya in 2012, after decades in exile, to search for the truth about his father, a prominent dissident who disappeared into Qaddafi's prisons. A Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir about grief, family and a country in upheaval.

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• Seth Godin: “The Return, by Hisham Matar. A beautiful and heartrending memoir of the costs and survival of a tyrant.”