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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what it is to be human.Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, the fall of Gaddafi meant he was finally able to return to his homeland. In this moving memoir, the author takes us on an illuminating journey, both physical and psychological; a journey to find his father and rediscover his country.'A beautifully-written memoir that skillfully balances a graceful guide through Libya's recent history with the author's dogged quest to find his father' Barack Obama

En usedvanlig sterk fortelling om en sønns leting etter sin far og om hjemkomsten til et land han trodde han hadde forlatt for alltid. I 1990 da Hisham Matar bodde i London, ble faren hans, Jaballa Matar, som var politisk dissident, kidnappet i Kairo av Gadaffis sikkerhetspoliti brakt tilbake til Libya hvor han ble satt i fengsel. Hisham skulle aldri se faren sin igjen. Tjue år senere, i 2012, kan Hisham Matar vende tilbake til Libya for første gang på 22 år. I denne rørende og rystende boken beskriver han letingen etter faren, den uutslokkelige tørsten etter å få vite hva som har skjedd. Hisham var 19 år da Jaballa forsvant. Det har preget hele voksenlivet hans. Samtidig har han levd et liv i utlendighet. I boken forteller han om hvordan det er å vende tilbake til et land som er revet i filler. Å treffe igjen onkler og tanter han ikke har sett siden han var liten gutt. Han skriver om hva som rører seg politisk og kulturelt i et land der hele fundamentet er forsvunnet. Hjemkomsten er en på samme tid universell og dypt personlig fortelling om tap. Matar skriver glimrende om historie, politikk og kunst. Dette er en fortelling om hva det vil si å være menneske. Det er en bok vi trenger å lese akkurat nå - i den tiden vi lever i.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar, read by Khalid Abdalla. In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Monas heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the man they both love. Only for Nuri to discover a silence he cannot break and unimaginable secrets his father never wanted him to know.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar, read by Khalid Abdalla. Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered. Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood.