Anatomy of A Disappearance

Author(s): Matar Hisham

Fiction

Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her bright yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina holiday resort, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri's father with whom Mona falls in love and who she will eventually marry. And their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he longs to get his father out of the way. However, Nuri will soon regret what he wished for. And, as he and his stepmother's world is shattered by events beyond their control, they both begin to realise how little they really knew about the man they loved. In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, Hisham Matar asks, in his extraordinary new novel, when a loved one disappears how does their absence shape the lives of those who are left?


Product Information

Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. His first novel, In the Country of Men, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9780670918072
  • : Penguin Books
  • : Viking
  • : January 2011
  • : 230mm x 152 mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : March 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Matar Hisham
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 356