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The Return By Hisham Matar

In a Nutshell

In this Pulitzer prize-winning memoir, British-Libyan author Hisham Matar chronicles the loss of his father, who was 'disappeared' by the Qaddafi regime in the 1990s.

Favorite Quote

I was back in that familiar place, a place of shadows where the only way to engage with what happened is through the imagination, an activity that serves only to excite the past, multiplying its possibilities, like a house with endless rooms, inescapable and haunted.

Hisham Matar

Introduction

Losing a loved one is never easy, but death, at least, is certain. When a loved one disappears, their fate unknown, grief is interrupted.

Hisham Matar is an award-winning British-Libyan writer whose family fled Libya during the brutal dictatorship of Muammar Qaddafi.

In The Return, Hisham's 2016 memoir, he recalls his search for his missing father, the Libyan dissident Jaballa Matar, who was kidnapped, imprisoned, and 'disappeared' by the Qaddafi regime in the 1990s.

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