Anatomy of a Disappearance
A Novel
by Hisham Matar
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Pub Date Aug 23 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Random House Publishing Group | Random House
Description
“A haunting novel, exquisitely written and psychologically rich.”—The Washington Post
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness her death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father—until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees Mona, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri’s father with whom Mona falls in love and whom she eventually marries. Their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he wishes his father would disappear. Nuri will, however, soon regret what he’s wished for. When his father, a dissident in exile from his homeland, is abducted under mysterious circumstances, the world that Nuri and his stepmother share is shattered. And soon they begin to realize how little they knew about the man they both loved.
“At once a probing mystery of a father’s disappearance and a vivid coming-of-age story . . . This novel is compulsively readable.”—The Plain Dealer
“Studded with little jewels of perception, deft metaphors and details that illuminate character or set a scene.”—The New York Times
“One of the most moving works based on a boy’s view of the world.”—Newsweek
“Elegiac . . . [Hisham Matar] writes of a son’s longing for a lost father with heartbreaking acuity.”—Newsday
Don’t miss the conversation between Hisham Matar and Hari Kunzru at the back of the book.
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men.
Advance Praise
Advance praise for Anatomy of a Disappearance
"Two things stood out as I read Anatomy of a Disappearance. First, there was the quiet power of the language, and the author's control of it. Second, there was Hisham Matar's ability to tell a story that from the first sentence seems inevitable, yet is full of surprises. I was moved and very impressed."-Roddy Doyle
"Sculpted in a prose of clutter-free, classical precision . . . a pure demonstration of the strange alchemy of fiction."-The Independent (U.K.)
"A tenderly written novel with Shakespearean themes, it can be read as a deeply personal account of the losses that tyranny and exile produce."-The Times Literary Supplement
"Haunting in every sense . . . An absorbing novel that finds its eloquence in what is left unsaid."-The Sunday Times (London)
"Submerged grief gives this fine novel the mythic inexorability of Greek tragedy."-The Economist
"A fable of loss, and an often troubling meditation on fathers and sons . . . Hisham Matar is writing from the heart."-The Guardian (London)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780679643982 |
| PRICE | $13.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 240 |
