Anatomy of a Disappearance Author:Hisham Matar Nuri is born into exile, the son of worldly parents who've fled their Arab country in the wake of a revolution. After his mother's death, Nuri and his dashing father live a life of strange emptiness in their Cairo apartment, with only the occasional hint of the father's risky political activities intruding . . . until they meet Mona. The young, ... more »beautiful half-English, half-Arab woman sitting by the pool of the Magda Marina Hotel transfixes both the father and Nuri. But the life the three create is shattered when the father disappears.Anatomy of a Disappearance is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that has won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition. In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one disappears, how does that absence shape the lives of those who are left;Hisham Matar's own father, an anti-Gaddafi activist, "disappeared" in 1990 from Cairo and was taken to a Libyan prison. His fate is still unknown.« less