Anatomy of a Disappearance

Author Hisham Matar
Narrator Khalid Abdalla
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 30 June 2016
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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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

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

Matar suffuses Nuri’s education in love and loss with an erotic frisson and fragile grace that lend the book an inner radiance

Independent

Submerged grief gives this fine novel the mythic inexorability of Greek tragedy

Economist

Sensually written, there is an extravagant feel even to the simplest sentence. From start to finish that exquisitely profound quality of uncertainty is the most wrenching aspect of all

Sunday Telegraph

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