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What a brilliant book. The Return reads as easily as a thriller, but is a story that will stick; a person is lost but gravity and resonance remain
What a brilliant book. The Return reads as easily as a thriller, but is a story that will stick; a person is lost but gravity and resonance remain
It is likely to become a classic.
Wise and agonizing and thrilling to read
Bristles with arresting wisdom
A treasure for the ages
Tremendously powerful
A magnificent memoir of exile and loss
One of the essential books of our times
A profound and powerful meditation on love, loss and exile
A truly remarkable book
Stands comparison with the best literature of exile
[An] extraordinary memoir
Marvellously well-handled memoir
A tale of mighty love, loyalty and courage
A masterful memoir, a searing meditation on loss, exile, grief, guilt, belonging and, above all, family.
Beautifully written
Exquisite
An astonishing political thriller
[A] profound work of witnessing and grief... leaves a deep emotional imprint
A moving, unflinching memoir of a family torn apart by the savage realities of today's middle east
I have always admired Matar's tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice
Mr. Matar is not a wonderful writer because his father disappeared or because his homeland is a mess: he is a brilliant narrative architect and prose stylist, his pared-down approach and measured pace a striking complement to the emotional tumult of his material . . . This book is an extraordinary gift for us all
Breathtaking memoir... an elegy by a son who, through his eloquence, defies the men who wanted to erase his father and gifts him with a kind of immortality
The Return moved me to tears and taught me about love and home
A desolating and powerful account of his son's search for his father, in life and death
Is it a sign, or a consequence, of this dreadful year that the best books displayed stern lucidity in the face of darkness and death? Hisham Matar's search for his "disappeared" father in The Return (note how badly British politicians come out of it)
A masterpiece . . . Its concision and reserve only heighten the power of a gripping and agonising story
The Return is the self portrait of a haunting, a kind of political ghost story - made more unbearable by the beauty of its prose
The intelligence and grace of Matar's writing is fuelled by a fierce and valid rage
For Matar, hope depends on individuals and families standing by cherished values
A haunting and terrifying story, told with courage, anger, dignity and unswerving determination
Among the best of the year's writing... This book is his masterful ink-stained resistance
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'
Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, Frances Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche and Germany's Geschwister Scholl Prize, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, the Costa Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is also the author of the novels In the Country of Men, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and his most recent book is A Month in Siena. Matar is a Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.
What a brilliant book. The Return reads as easily as a thriller, but is a story that will stick; a person is lost but gravity and resonance remain
It is likely to become a classic.
A total work of art. It reminded me of Solzhenitsyn. It is of the same importance. I love it.
Wise and agonizing and thrilling to read
Bristles with arresting wisdom
A treasure for the ages
Tremendously powerful
A magnificent memoir of exile and loss
One of the essential books of our times
A profound and powerful meditation on love, loss and exile
A truly remarkable book
Stands comparison with the best literature of exile
[An] extraordinary memoir
Marvellously well-handled memoir
A tale of mighty love, loyalty and courage
A masterful memoir, a searing meditation on loss, exile, grief, guilt, belonging and, above all, family.
Beautifully written
Exquisite
An astonishing political thriller
[A] profound work of witnessing and grief... leaves a deep emotional imprint
A moving, unflinching memoir of a family torn apart by the savage realities of today's middle east
I have always admired Matar's tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice
Mr. Matar is not a wonderful writer because his father disappeared or because his homeland is a mess: he is a brilliant narrative architect and prose stylist, his pared-down approach and measured pace a striking complement to the emotional tumult of his material . . . This book is an extraordinary gift for us all
Breathtaking memoir... an elegy by a son who, through his eloquence, defies the men who wanted to erase his father and gifts him with a kind of immortality
The Return moved me to tears and taught me about love and home
A desolating and powerful account of his son's search for his father, in life and death
Is it a sign, or a consequence, of this dreadful year that the best books displayed stern lucidity in the face of darkness and death? Hisham Matar's search for his "disappeared" father in The Return (note how badly British politicians come out of it)
A masterpiece . . . Its concision and reserve only heighten the power of a gripping and agonising story
The Return is the self portrait of a haunting, a kind of political ghost story - made more unbearable by the beauty of its prose
The intelligence and grace of Matar's writing is fuelled by a fierce and valid rage
For Matar, hope depends on individuals and families standing by cherished values
A haunting and terrifying story, told with courage, anger, dignity and unswerving determination
Among the best of the year's writing... This book is his masterful ink-stained resistance
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'
Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, Frances Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche and Germany's Geschwister Scholl Prize, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, the Costa Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is also the author of the novels In the Country of Men, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and his most recent book is A Month in Siena. Matar is a Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.