The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner) : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Paperback)

from AlisonY

Hisham Matar's father was a high ranking resistance leader against Qaddafi's regime who was eventually imprisoned and 'disappeared'. Exiled from Libya 36 years previously, the book opens with Matar returning for the first time to Libya with his mother and American wife, and as he meets cousins, u...

from quiBee

This is the despairing story about a son's and a family's loss. Jaballa Mattar was a prominent Libyan opposition leader who was kidnapped in Egypt and who then disappeared into a notorious prison in Libya leaving a gaping hole in the family and a gaping hole in the lives of those left behind. His...

from PDCRead

In 1969 a coup d'état took place in a North African country. The Free Officers Movement, a revolutionary group headed by a 27-year-old army officer called Muammar Qaddafi, disposed King Idris, Libya's monarch. So began a 42 year reign of terror by the iron grip of Qaddafi and his family and suppo...

from LynnB

I found this book a bit disjointed...it skips around in time and i was occasionally confused as to who was where at the moment. In spite of that, it is a very powerful, honest book about what it is like to lose a father and to live with the uncertainty of never knowing, for sure, what happened to...

from banjo123

This is a beautifully written memoir about Matar's experiences in trying to find out what happened to his father, Jaballa Matar, a Libyan diplomat, who became a political dissident under Qaddafi. He was kidnapped, held in a secret prison, and disappeared. This book details Matar's attempts to fin...