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Title The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between / Hisham Matar
Imprint New York : Random House, 2016

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Romaner på engelska  Roman engelska    DUE 24-04-15  ---
Edition First U.S. edition
Descript 243 pages. : map. ; 22 cm
Note "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"
Subject Matar, Hisham, 1970-
Authors, American -- Biography
Fathers and sons
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood -- Biographies -- Travel writing
Författare
Libyen
Far och son
Relationer
Självbiografiska skildringar
Romaner
Skönlitteratur
Classmark 823.92
ISBN/ISSN 9780812994827
0812994825
9780399589430
0399589430
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