# The Return

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- Authors: [Hisham Matar](https://www.bookquiver.com/hisham-matar)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-06-30

## Description

Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was finally able to return to his homeland for the first time. In this heart-breaking, illuminating memoir he describes his return to a country and a family he thought he would never see again. The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale of loss. It is an exquisite meditation on history, politics and art. It's the story of what it is to be human.

## Editions

### The Return

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-628-0
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2017-03-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Return

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 48 min
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-613-5
- Published: 2016-06-30
- Language: en_GB

### The Return

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-629-7
- Published: 2016-06-30
- Language: en_GB