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

fathers, sons, and the land in between
Author:
Matar, Hisham, 1970-
ISBN:
9780812994827

9780399589430

9780812985085

9780812994834
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Language:
English
Custom PUBDATE:
2017
Place of publication:
New York : Random House, 2017.

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Publication Date:
2017

2016
Summary:
In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the 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."
Abstract:
In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the 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."
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