Anatomy of a Disappearance
- Author Hisham Matar
- Narrator Khalid Abdalla
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 5 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Romance.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar, read by Khalid Abdalla.
In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the man they both love. Only for Nuri to discover a silence he cannot break and unimaginable secrets his father never wanted him to know.
Critics Review
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A fable of loss, and an often troubling meditation on fathers and sons. Matar is writing from the heart
Observer -
This beautiful, subtle novel, like the lives of its characters, repays many readings
The Times -
Hisham Matar is a master of the evocative; he creates his effects, on the page and on our nervous system with the fewest and most telling words. I was spellbound
Ahdaf Soueif -
I was moved and very impressed
Roddy Doyle -
Each time I had to put it down I couldn’t wait to get back to it
Michael Frayn -
Haunting in every sense. An absorbing novel that finds its eloquence in what is left unsaid and its most vivid imagery in what has been lost, possibly for ever
Sunday Times
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