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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- Publisher
- Random House
- First published
- 2016
- Length
- ≈ 243 pages
- Reading time
- 7–9 hours
- ISBN
- 0812994825
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
In 1990 Hisham Matar’s father, a prominent critic of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship, was kidnapped by the regime’s agents and imprisoned in Libya. Matar never saw him again. This memoir follows his return to his native country in 2012, after Gaddafi’s death, to try to find out what happened to his father.
Source: The Return (memoir)
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