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Anatomy of a disappearance a novel

Born into exile, eleven-year-old Nuri, the son of worldly parents who fled the revolution in their Arab country, is transfixed along with his widowed father by an Arab-English woman who joins their family, a situation that is complicated by Nuri's father's disappearance.

Main Author: Matar, Hisham, 1970-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Dial Press, c2011.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Stepmothers > Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt) > Fiction.
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Summary: Born into exile, eleven-year-old Nuri, the son of worldly parents who fled the revolution in their Arab country, is transfixed along with his widowed father by an Arab-English woman who joins their family, a situation that is complicated by Nuri's father's disappearance.
Item Description: "Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Viking"--t.p. verso.
Physical Description: 224 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780385340441 :
0385340443 :
Author Notes: Hisham Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents. He grew up in Tripoli, Libya, and Cairo, Egypt. His novels include In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance. His memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography/autobiography in 2017. He also won the 2017 PEN America Literary Awards/Jean Stein Award for The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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