The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

Author(s): Matar, Hisham

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Near Fine
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	2nd Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Year:	2016
ISBN:	9780670923335
Book ID:	002352
Catalogue(s):	Autobiography and Biography ◇ History - General

2800pp. Black cloth covered boards, deep red endpapers. Hint of creaminess to pages, else fine throughout. In its original dust jacket. Radio 4 book of the week and short-listed for the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction, 2016. An extraordinary memoir - Matar was just 19 when his father was kidnapped and imprisoned in Libya. He would never see him again. 22 years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, he returned to his homeland. A universal but very personal story.

Keywords:

libya gaddafi kidnapp terrorism prison human rights international relations