Hisham Matar

Anatomy of a Disappearance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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's complicated by Nuri's father's disappearance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 134mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9780385340458
• ISBN-10: 0385340451
• Artikelnr.: 35281847

Autorenporträt

Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. His first novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It won six international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book award for Europe and South Asia, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the inaugural Arab American Book Award. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Matar lives in London and serves as an associate professor at Barnard College in New York City.