This book is a memoir based primarily on the horrific events in the tenure of Qaddafi in Libya and how they effected the lives of the victims. It is about Hisham Matar's family and their times in Libya and Egypt in general and Hisham's own life focusing mostly around Hisham's father, a businessman of Libya, who was abducted from Egypt and confined to the Abu Salem prison in Tripoli. After a general massacre in the prison, his father was neither heard of nor was documented among the prisoners who were killed. This lead to Hisham's quest to establish his father's death to himself so that he can come to terms with it.
Splendidly written this memoir is a must read both as a document and as Hisham's style using catch phrases, flowing across time and places with perfect ease.
In a scale of 20 we give it a 19.
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