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The Return
Hisham Matar
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Description for The Return
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBL; BGHA; BM; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 216.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what it is to be human. Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, the fall of Gaddafi meant he was finally able to return to his homeland. In this moving memoir, the author takes us on an illuminating journey, both physical and psychological; a journey to find his father and rediscover his country. 'A beautifully-written memoir that skillfully balances a graceful guide through Libya's recent history with the author's dogged quest to find his father' Barack Obama
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241966280
SKU
V9780241966280
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He is the author of two novels, In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and a work of non-fiction, The Return. In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Critics Book Circle Award in the US and won six international literary awards. The Return won a Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Folio Prize and was shortlisted for many other awards including the Baillie Gifford Prize. Hisham Matar lives in London.
Reviews for The Return
A beautifully-written memoir that skillfully balances a graceful guide through Libya's recent history with the author's dogged quest to find his father'
Barack Obama Among the best of the year's writing... This book is his masterful ink-stained resistance
The Sunday Times
A haunting and terrifying story, told with courage, anger, dignity and unswerving determination
Blake Morrison
Guardian Books of the Year
For Matar, hope depends on individuals and families standing by cherished values
Jonathan Benthall
Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year
The intelligence and grace of Matar's writing is fuelled by a fierce and valid rage
Rupert Thomson
Observer Books of the Year
The Return is the self portrait of a haunting, a kind of political ghost story - made more unbearable by the beauty of its prose
Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
A masterpiece . . . Its concision and reserve only heighten the power of a gripping and agonising story
Alan Hollinghurst
Guardian Books of the Year
Is it a sign, or a consequence, of this dreadful year that the best books displayed stern lucidity in the face of darkness and death? Hisham Matar's search for his disappeared father in The Return (note how badly British politicians come out of it)
Julian Barnes
Guardian Books of the Year
A desolating and powerful account of his son's search for his father, in life and death
Hilary Mantel
New Statesman Books of the Year
The Return moved me to tears and taught me about love and home
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Guardian Books of the Year
Breathtaking memoir... an elegy by a son who, through his eloquence, defies the men who wanted to erase his father and gifts him with a kind of immortality
Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2016
Mr. Matar is not a wonderful writer because his father disappeared or because his homeland is a mess: he is a brilliant narrative architect and prose stylist, his pared-down approach and measured pace a striking complement to the emotional tumult of his material . . . This book is an extraordinary gift for us all
Wall Street Journal
I have always admired Matar's tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice
Elif Shafak A moving, unflinching memoir of a family torn apart by the savage realities of today's middle east
Kazuo Ishiguro [A] profound work of witnessing and grief... leaves a deep emotional imprint
Newsday
An astonishing political thriller
Mail on Sunday
Exquisite
Observer
Beautifully written
Economist
A masterful memoir, a searing meditation on loss, exile, grief, guilt, belonging and, above all, family.
Book of the Week, Sunday Times
A tale of mighty love, loyalty and courage
Spectator
Marvellously well-handled memoir
Evening Standard
[An] extraordinary memoir
Financial Times Stands comparison with the best literature of exile
Prospect
A truly remarkable book
Daily Telegraph
A profound and powerful meditation on love, loss and exile
Sunday Express
One of the essential books of our times
Adam Foulds A magnificent memoir of exile and loss
Rawi Hage Tremendously powerful
Nadeem Aslam A treasure for the ages
Peter Carey Bristles with arresting wisdom
Jeremy Paxman Wise and agonizing and thrilling to read
Zadie Smith A total work of art. It reminded me of Solzhenitsyn. It is of the same importance. I love it.
James Rebanks It is likely to become a classic.
Colm Toibin What a brilliant book. The Return reads as easily as a thriller, but is a story that will stick; a person is lost but gravity and resonance remain
Hilary Mantel
Barack Obama Among the best of the year's writing... This book is his masterful ink-stained resistance
The Sunday Times
A haunting and terrifying story, told with courage, anger, dignity and unswerving determination
Blake Morrison
Guardian Books of the Year
For Matar, hope depends on individuals and families standing by cherished values
Jonathan Benthall
Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year
The intelligence and grace of Matar's writing is fuelled by a fierce and valid rage
Rupert Thomson
Observer Books of the Year
The Return is the self portrait of a haunting, a kind of political ghost story - made more unbearable by the beauty of its prose
Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
A masterpiece . . . Its concision and reserve only heighten the power of a gripping and agonising story
Alan Hollinghurst
Guardian Books of the Year
Is it a sign, or a consequence, of this dreadful year that the best books displayed stern lucidity in the face of darkness and death? Hisham Matar's search for his disappeared father in The Return (note how badly British politicians come out of it)
Julian Barnes
Guardian Books of the Year
A desolating and powerful account of his son's search for his father, in life and death
Hilary Mantel
New Statesman Books of the Year
The Return moved me to tears and taught me about love and home
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Guardian Books of the Year
Breathtaking memoir... an elegy by a son who, through his eloquence, defies the men who wanted to erase his father and gifts him with a kind of immortality
Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2016
Mr. Matar is not a wonderful writer because his father disappeared or because his homeland is a mess: he is a brilliant narrative architect and prose stylist, his pared-down approach and measured pace a striking complement to the emotional tumult of his material . . . This book is an extraordinary gift for us all
Wall Street Journal
I have always admired Matar's tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice
Elif Shafak A moving, unflinching memoir of a family torn apart by the savage realities of today's middle east
Kazuo Ishiguro [A] profound work of witnessing and grief... leaves a deep emotional imprint
Newsday
An astonishing political thriller
Mail on Sunday
Exquisite
Observer
Beautifully written
Economist
A masterful memoir, a searing meditation on loss, exile, grief, guilt, belonging and, above all, family.
Book of the Week, Sunday Times
A tale of mighty love, loyalty and courage
Spectator
Marvellously well-handled memoir
Evening Standard
[An] extraordinary memoir
Financial Times Stands comparison with the best literature of exile
Prospect
A truly remarkable book
Daily Telegraph
A profound and powerful meditation on love, loss and exile
Sunday Express
One of the essential books of our times
Adam Foulds A magnificent memoir of exile and loss
Rawi Hage Tremendously powerful
Nadeem Aslam A treasure for the ages
Peter Carey Bristles with arresting wisdom
Jeremy Paxman Wise and agonizing and thrilling to read
Zadie Smith A total work of art. It reminded me of Solzhenitsyn. It is of the same importance. I love it.
James Rebanks It is likely to become a classic.
Colm Toibin What a brilliant book. The Return reads as easily as a thriller, but is a story that will stick; a person is lost but gravity and resonance remain
Hilary Mantel