The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by American born British-Libyan writer Hisham Matar

Thirty-three years after setting foot for the last time in the land of his origins, the author of this book returned to Libya with his mother and wife. The overthrow of Gaddafi had opened a new era in which there was room for hope, but Hisham dreamt of more than a country of freedom and progress- his mind was filled with the desire to heal a deep and painful wound that had marked his life and that of his family.

In 1990, his father, Jaballa Matar, a prosperous and educated businessman, poetry lover and dissident leader in exile had been kidnapped in Cairo and confined in a Libyan prison. Six years later, the already scarce news was cut short: Jaballa’s trail was definitively lost. This moving story, among other things, is about this indefatigable search for the truth.

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