Praise for "Anatomy of a Disappearance"

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
"Chicago Tribune - "The Daily Beast" - The Independent - The Guardian - The Telegraph - The Toronto Sun - Irish Times"

"For Western readers, what often seemed lacking [in the coverage of the Arab Spring] was an authentic interpreter and witness, someone who could speak across cultures and make us feel the abundant miseries that fueled the revolt. No one plays this role, in my view, as powerfully, as Hisham Matar...Matar writes in English, in extraordinarily powerful and densely evocative prose: he seems uniquely poised to play the role of literary ambassador between two worlds..."--"The New York Times"

"Mesmerizing. . . . The recent events that have lent topicality to this elegiac novel might easily have swamped a lesser work. Its strength rests in Matar's decision to focus on emotional rather than material details, proving that in art, at least, the personal can trump the political.""--Houston Chronicle"

"A haunting novel, exquisitely written and psychologically rich.""--Washington Post"

"[A] potent new novel . . . which moves among eerily silent interiors in London, Cairo, and Geneva to evoke the emotional vacuum that follows [a] father's abduction.""--Vogue"

"Outstanding . . . with its stylistic echoes of Nabokov."--"The Irish Times"
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"Elegiac . . . [Hisham Matar] writes of a son's longing for his lost father with heartbreaking acuity.""--Newsday "
"A son without closure writes sparingly and brilliantly about what it is to suffer loss without end.""--Kirkus Reviews"
"Eloquent . . . one of the most moving works based on a boy's view of the world."
--"Newsweek"
"A searing vision of familial rupture and disintegration. . . . At once tough and tender, shaped by the sorrows of memory, Nuri's story is searching, acquiring power in its graceful acceptance of the impossibility of certainty. . . . An elegant and smart evo