Description
In a quiet household shadowed by grief, a young boy named Nuri tries to make sense of loss—first the death of his mother, then the arrival of a stepmother who changes the emotional weather of his life. When his father, a dissident living in exile, is suddenly abducted, the disappearance fractures the fragile routines that once held the family together and forces Nuri to confront what love, loyalty, and silence can cost. Moving through memory and charged relationships, the novel explores the intimate aftermath of political violence: how absence reshapes identity, how secrets breed shame, and how longing can become its own kind of evidence. With Matar’s lyrical, meticulously crafted prose, the story unfolds like a careful investigation—tender in its focus, haunting in its implications, and deeply concerned with the human anatomy of disappearance.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Group (Canada)
Published Jan 1, 2011
247 pages
ISBN: 9780670065516
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First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar.