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| Author | Hisham Matar |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
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Publication date | June 2016 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback), e-book, audiobook[3] |
| Pages | 304 |
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| ISBN | 978-0-670-92333-5 (Hardcover) |
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between is a memoir by Hisham Matar that was first published in June 2016.[4] The memoir centers on Matar's return to his native Libya in 2012 to search for the truth behind the 1990 disappearance of his father, a prominent political dissident of the Gaddafi regime.[1] It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography,[5] the inaugural 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award[6] and the 2017 Folio Prize, becoming the first nonfiction book to do so.[7]
- ^ a b "The Return - Kirkus Review". Kirkus Reviews. April 18, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
- ^ Cooke, Rachel (July 3, 2016). "The Return by Hisham Matar – exquisite pain of a fatherless son". The Guardian.
- ^ The Return (official publisher's page). Penguin Books. March 2, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
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jeansteinwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Kean, Danuta (May 24, 2017). "Folio prize goes to Hisham Matar's memoir The Return". The Guardian.