# The Return

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- Book: [The Return](https://www.bookquiver.com/hisham-matar/the-return) ([The Return.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hisham-matar/the-return.md))
- Authors: [Hisham Matar](https://www.bookquiver.com/hisham-matar)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-629-7
- Published: 2016-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.