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Collection: Adult Nonfiction
Call Number: 920 Matar
Author: Matar, Hisham
Title: The Return
Remainder of title: fathers, sons, and the land in between /
Summary, etc. note: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballah Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning." This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780812994827 (hardback : acid-free paper)
International Standard Book Number: 9780399589430 (international edition : acid-free paper)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780812994834 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: f-ly---
Classification number: PR6113.A87
Item number: Z46 2016
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 823/.92
Classification number: B
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: BIO026000
Classification number: FAM020000
Dates associated with a name: 1970-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Hisham Matar.
Edition statement: First U.S. edition.
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.
Name of publisher: Random House
Date of publication: 2016
: New York :
: Random House,
: [2016]
Extent: 243 pages : 24 cm.
Other physical details: map ;
Dimensions: 22 cm
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: Donated by Andrew Fenniman 03/13/17
Purchase price: 26.00
Personal name: Matar, Hisham,
Personal name: Matar, Hisham,
Dates associated with a name: 1970-
Dates associated with a name: 1970-
General subdivision: Travel
Geographic subdivision: Libya.
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: Authors, American
Subject: Fathers and sons.
Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Subject: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood.
Form subdivision: Biography.
: acquire
: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xn12 2016-07-22 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.;
: HAND CARRY -- NEEDED FOR CALM; PLS CONTACT amgo, x72445 / scar, x7717 2016-07-29
: ce08 2016-01-15
: xk06 2016-08-01 to CALM
: ce08 2016-01-15 ONIX to Dewey
: xk14 2016-01-15 to CIP

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