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Language English Media type Print (Hardback Publisher Viking Press OCLC 701440455 | 3.4/5 Goodreads Publication date 3 March 2011 Originally published 3 March 2011 Genre Novel Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 256 pp (first edition, hardback) ISBN 978-0-670-91651-1 (first edition, hardback) Novels In the Country of Men, The Egyptologist, The Western Lands, The Alexandria Link, Clea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hisham matar reads from anatomy of a disappearance
Anatomy of a Disappearance is the second novel by the award-winning Libyan writer Hisham Matar, first published in 2011 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books.
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Plot summary
The book follows the story of Nuri, a teenager living in exile with his family in Cairo. After the sudden death of his mother, he also loses his father Kamal Pasha el-Alfi who disappears in mysterious circumstances in Switzerland, and it becomes obvious that he was abducted by the regime of their country (which is never named). The young Nuri tries to come to terms with the disappearance of his father while he is living in London.
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