The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

<b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE </b>• <b>The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing—one of <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>’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 <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize</b><br /><br /> When 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. <i>The Return</i> is the story of what he found there.<br /><br /> The Pulitzer Prize citation hailed <i>The Return </i>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: How does one go on living in the face of unthinkable loss?<br /><b><br />NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY </b><br /><b>Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i> • <i>The Washington Post </i>• <i>The Guardian • Financial Times</i></b><br /><br />“A tale of mighty love, loyalty and courage. It simply must be read.”<b>—<i>The Spectator</i> (U.K.)</b><br /><br /> “Wise and agonizing and thrilling to read.”<b>—Zadie Smith</b><br /><br /> “[An] eloquent memoir . . . at once a suspenseful detective story about a writer investigating his father’s fate . . . and a son’s efforts to come to terms with his father’s ghost, who has haunted more than half his life by his absence.”<b>—Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br /><br /> “This outstanding book . . . roves back and forth in time with a freedom that conceals the intricate precision of its art.”<b>—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /><br /> “Truly remark