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In March of 2012, over thirty years since having stepped on his homeland, Hisham Matar returns to Libya with his mother and wife to find his father. In 1990, Jaballa Matar, a prosperous businessman, leader of the dissident movement, had been kidnapped in Cairo and confined to a prison in Libya.

Produktbeschreibung
In March of 2012, over thirty years since having stepped on his homeland, Hisham Matar returns to Libya with his mother and wife to find his father. In 1990, Jaballa Matar, a prosperous businessman, leader of the dissident movement, had been kidnapped in Cairo and confined to a prison in Libya.
Autorenporträt
Hisham Matar nació en 1970 en Nueva York. De padres libios, se crió en Trípoli y en El Cairo y ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta en Inglaterra. Su primera novela, Solo en el mundo (Salamandra, 2007), se tradujo a veintinueve idiomas y fue finalista del premio Man Booker, del Guardian First Book Award y del National Book Critics Circle Award en Estados Unidos. Ganó seis importantes premios literarios internacionales, entre ellos el Commonwealth Writers ́ Prize, el premio Ondaatje de la Royal Society of Literature, el premio Flaiano y el Gregor von Rezzori. Similar éxito tuvo su segunda novela, Historia de una desaparición (Salamandra, 2012). En la actualidad, Matar vive entre Londres y Nueva York.