[Lezen] [Epub ] The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and
the Land in Between
By Hisham Matar
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a
legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten
best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for
the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWhen
Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went
missing under mysterious circumstances. Hisham would never see him again, but he
never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. Twenty-two years later, he
returned to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father's disappearance.
The Return is the story of what he found there.The Pulitzer Prize citation hailed The
Return as "a first-person elegy for home and father." Transforming his personal quest
for answers into a brilliantly told universal tale of hope and resilience, Matar has
given us an unforgettable work with a powerful human question at its core:
