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100 1  Matar, Hisham,|d1970-|eauthor. 
245 14 The return :|bfathers, sons and the land in between /
       |cHisham Matar. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c2016. 
300    243 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Matar, Hisham,|d1970- 
600 10 Matar, Hisham,|d1970-|xTravel|zLibya. 
650  0 Authors, American|vBiography. 
650  0 Fathers and sons.