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Cover of The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

by Hisham Matar

Recorded edition: Random House · 2016-07-05 · ISBN 0812994825 · Edition source

Approximately 243 pages

Estimated reading time: 7–9 hours at 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate.

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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