Anatomy of a disappearance
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hisham Matar
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780385340441
Subjects: Fiction; Missing persons; Fathers and sons; Stepmothers; Family secrets
Description: 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.
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Viking"--t.p. verso.