According to the passage, which of the following statements is FALSE?

参考解析：

细节理解题。根据第二段第一句“I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps...”可知A项正确。根据第一段第三句“I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago.”可知作者离开时五岁，现在十八年过去了，所以作者现在的年龄是23岁。故B项正确。根据最后一段的倒数两句“The village no longer existed because it had been submerged, and all the valley too. The lake was not a natural one, but a man-made reservoir.”可知，过去的村庄和山谷都被淹没了，现在的湖泊是一个水库，故D项正确。根据第一段倒数第三句“His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land”可知。作者的父亲之所以没有回乡，是因为他们已经植根于现在生活的土地，而不是讨厌和母亲生活过的地方。C选项内容是无中生有。题干要求找出错误的一项。故选C。