The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between

The Resource The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between

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The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between

Title remainder

fathers, sons, and the land in between

Statement of responsibility

Hisham Matar

Language

eng

Summary

"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 Jaballah 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"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

823/.92
B

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6113.A87

LC item number

Z46 2016eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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