“The Return is 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.” — The Washington Post “A triumph of art over tyranny, structurally thrilling, intensely moving, The Return is a treasure for the ages.”/5(). Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells are empty and there is no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returns with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he’d go back to again. The Return is the story of what he found there. It is at once an exquisite meditation on history, politics, and art, a brilliant portrait of a nation and a people on the cusp of change, and a disquieting depiction . The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Paperback – International Edition, April 4, by. Hisham Matar (Author) › Visit Amazon's Hisham Matar Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Hisham Matar (Author) out of 5 /5().
MISCELLANEOUS. Author: Hisham Matar. New York. Random House. pages. So few books manage to convey the emotional anguish of searching for an answer as well as Hisham Matar's recent Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, The Return. Matar grew up in Libya during the reign of Muammar Qaddafi. His father, Jabala Matar, a major opposition. "And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest." ― Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between. The Return by Hisham Matar - exquisite pain of a fatherless son Shafts of light will come in, and sometimes they are dazzling. A son massages his beloved father's feet. A mother whispers a.
Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells are empty and there is no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returns with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he’d go back to again. The Return is the story of what he found there. It is at once an exquisite meditation on history, politics, and art, a brilliant portrait of a nation and a people on the cusp of change, and a disquieting depiction of the brutal legacy of absolute power. “Few trips could be as emotionally freighted as the one taken by Libyan-raised novelist Hisham Matar in his thriller-like memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between, about the post-Qaddafi search for his dissident father—and his own deeply ambivalent sense of homecoming.”—Vogue. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Paperback – International Edition, April 4, by. Hisham Matar (Author) › Visit Amazon's Hisham Matar Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Hisham Matar (Author) out of 5 stars. ratings.
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