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Anatomy of a Disappearance
Hisham Matar
The Dial Press
September 2011
On Sale: August 23, 2011
240 pages
ISBN: 0385340443
EAN: 9780385340441
Hardcover
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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 they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit
by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees
her, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri’s father
with whom Mona falls in love and whom she eventually
marries. And their happiness consumes Nuri to the point
where he wishes his father would disappear. Nuri will, however, soon regret what he wished for. His
father, long a dissident in exile from his homeland, is
taken under mysterious circumstances. And, as the world that
Nuri and his stepmother share is shattered by events beyond
their control, they begin to realize how little they knew
about the man they both loved. Anatomy of a Disappearance is written with all the emotional
precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous
international recognition. In a voice that is delicately
wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one
disappears, how does their absence shape the lives of those
who are left?
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