Anatomy of a Disappearance: A NovelNuri 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? |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 11 |
Section 4 | 19 |
Section 5 | 25 |
Section 6 | 31 |
Section 7 | 38 |
Section 8 | 44 |
Section 20 | 117 |
Section 21 | 124 |
Section 22 | 129 |
Section 23 | 134 |
Section 24 | 141 |
Section 25 | 148 |
Section 26 | 153 |
Section 27 | 158 |
Section 9 | 49 |
Section 10 | 53 |
Section 11 | 60 |
Section 12 | 66 |
Section 13 | 72 |
Section 14 | 78 |
Section 15 | 87 |
Section 16 | 93 |
Section 17 | 98 |
Section 18 | 103 |
Section 19 | 111 |
Section 28 | 163 |
Section 29 | 172 |
Section 30 | 182 |
Section 31 | 190 |
Section 32 | 202 |
Section 33 | 206 |
Section 34 | 212 |
Section 35 | 217 |
Section 36 | 223 |
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