THE RETURN: FATHERS, SONS AND THE LAND IN BETWEEN

Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B84001

English Summary/英文概要： An extraordinary memoir of a son’s search for his father and the return to a homeland he never thought he’d see again

Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. He still does not know for certain whether his father is alive or dead. Twenty years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was able to go back to his homeland for the first time. In his heartbreaking, illuminating memoir he describes his return to a country and a family he thought he would never see again.

The Return is the story of three generations of a Libyan family. It is the story of how that family lived through war, dictatorship, exile and revolution and somehow survived. It is an extraordinary book.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部子寻父，漂泊多年后，返回家园的动人回忆录。

希沙姆•马塔尔在十九岁时，父亲遭到绑架后，被关在利比亚监狱。他至此再也未见到父亲一面。对父亲的生死茫然不知。二十年后，在卡扎菲倒的政权被推翻后，希沙姆得以第一次回到他的祖国。在这部令人心碎的，具有一定历史意义的回忆录中，他描述了他从未想到会再度可得以重返的一个家园和国家。

《归来》是一个利比亚家族三代人的故事。这个故事中描述了一个利比亚家族是如何历经了战争、独裁、流亡和革命，而得以幸存下来的故事。这是一部意义深远的回忆录。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’Matar is beginning to do for the Arab experience what the likes of Salman Rushdie have done for the sub-continent’ - The Times

Matar is the writer who has done most to convey the reality of Col Gaddafi’s Libya (Gideon Rachman Financial Times)

Extraordinary . . . One of the most brilliant literary debuts of recent years (The Times on ’In the Country of Men’)

"The Return is tremendously powerful. Although it filled me with rage again and again, I never lost sight of Matar’s beautiful intelligence as he tried to get to the heart of the mystery. I am so very grateful he has written this book" --Nadeem Aslam

In the meantime, we have had our attention drawn to one more correction for the translation, please. p. 126, 8 lines from the bottom should read: ‘from 1977 to 1988’ not ‘1986’.

Hisham also won the inaugural PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for THE RETURN: https://pen.org/press-release/hisham-matar-takes-75000-prize-book-year-reimagined-pen-america-literary-awards-ceremony/ !

THE RETURN is the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in the Biography or Autobiography category! http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/hisham-matar

THE RETURN has been shortlisted for the UK’s Folio Prize! http://www.rathbonesfolioprize.com/

THE RETURN was recently a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the PEN America Literary Award. It won the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize, the inaugural PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. It was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize), the Costa Book Award, and the LA Times Book Prize. It was chosen as a New York Times notable book of 2016 and a Waterstones Best of 2016 in the memoir section.

I hope you are well! You’ve probably been told by now, but Obama highlighted THE RETURN in his recent reading list (Via Facebook). You can find the link here:
https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10156007456406749. We will be pushing this on our RH social media.

About the Author/作者介绍：

Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He has lived in London since 1986. His debut novel In the Country of Men has been published in twenty-eight languages and won numerous international prizes as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006, the Guardian First Book Award and the Index on Censorship Book Award. Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published in 2011 to rave reviews from authors such as Michael Frayn, Roddy Doyle and Ahdaf Soueif.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD: UK: Viking; US: Random House; Arabic: Dar El Shorouk; China: Henan University Press; Denmark: Gyldendal; France: Gallimard; Germany: Luchterhand; Holland: Meulenhoff; Italy: Einaudi; Korea: Dolbegae; Norway: Cappelen Damm; Poland: Czarne; Portugal: Jacaranda; Slovakia: Abysnt; Slovenia: Mladinska Knjiga; Spain: Salamandra; Sweden: Forum

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