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Among the most widely loved nonfiction titles of the year were Hisham Matar's The Return, a memoir of his search for his father, who disappeared after being jailed in Libya (an unstintingly truthful masterpiece, according to Alan Hollinghurst), and Edmund Gordon's biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, which was described as "luminous" by Philip Hensher.
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It is possible to be truthful without boring audiences, though there are few such masterpieces.
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A masterpiece of a different kind is Hisham Matar's The Return, an unstintingly truthful account of his protracted attempts to discover the facts about the disappearance of his father, a prominent opponent of Muammar Gaddafi.
RP: Truthful, always truthful.
It was truthful, 100% truthful.
"And truthful voices come from truthful people".
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Truthful how? "Truthful to the world".
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