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Anatomy of a Disappearance
- Author
- Hisham Matar
- Narrator
- Khalid Abdalla
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 30 June 2016
- Run Time
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
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A fable of loss, and an often troubling meditation on fathers and sons. Matar is writing from the heart
Observer
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This beautiful, subtle novel, like the lives of its characters, repays many readings
The Times
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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
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I was moved and very impressed
Roddy Doyle
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Each time I had to put it down I couldn't wait to get back to it
Michael Frayn
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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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Matar suffuses Nuri's education in love and loss with an erotic frisson and fragile grace that lend the book an inner radiance
Independent
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Submerged grief gives this fine novel the mythic inexorability of Greek tragedy
Economist
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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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Details
- Author
- Hisham Matar
- Narrator
- Khalid Abdalla
- Duration
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 June 2016
- ISBN
- 9780241978467
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Romance, Family life fiction, Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
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.
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