Anatomy of a Disappearance

Hisham Matar

ISBN 10: 067006551X / ISBN 13: 9780670065516

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2011

About this Item

1st edition signed by author. Yellow hardcover with silver text and design. Black and white illustrated dust jacket with gold and white text. Both book and jacket are in as new condition. 247 pages.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1692294107390

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anatomy of a Disappearance
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067006551X
• ISBN 13: 9780670065516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

 

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 whom 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 wishes for. And, as the world that he and his stepmother share is shattered by the events beyond their control, they both begin to realize 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?

About the Author

Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, and spent his childhood 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, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the U.S. It won six international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book (Europe and South Asia), the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Arab American Book Award. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Matar lives in London.