The Return
Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between. Winner of the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 2017
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now in paperback, this is the true story of Hisham Matar's return to Libya, 22 years after his father was kidnapped and taken to prison there. He never saw his father again, but the fall of Gaddafi meant he could return to his homeland and try and reconnect...
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Now in paperback, this is the true story of Hisham Matar's return to Libya, 22 years after his father was kidnapped and taken to prison there. He never saw his father again, but the fall of Gaddafi meant he could return to his homeland and try and reconnect with his past. From the author of "In The Country Of Men" and "Anatomy Of A Disappearance". 'A total work of art' James Rebanks
Autoren-Porträt von Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize among others, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, the Costa Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is also the author of In the Country of Men, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Anatomy of a Disappearance, and A Month in Siena. His most recent novel, My Friends, won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024. Matar is a Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Hisham Matar
- 2017, 304 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0241966280
- ISBN-13: 9780241966280
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
What a brilliant book. The Return reads as easily as a thriller, but is a story that will stick; a person is lost but gravity and resonance remain Hilary Mantel
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