HISHAM MATER
Organisation: Oxford Literary Festival
Time: 07 April 2011 4:00pm -
Place: Corpus Christi College - MBI Al Jaber Building, Christ Church, Oxford OX1
Oxford Literary Festival Presents:
HISHAM MATER
ANATOMY OF A DISAPPEARANCE
The award-winning novelist Hisham Matar, brings us a novel which examines the emotions of those left behind when a loved one disappears.
Anatomy of Disappearance, is the story of Nuri a young boy whose life is filled with emptiness when his mother dies in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Then Mona enters his life. When Nuri first sees her the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri's father that Mona eventually marries, leaving Nuri consumed by a desire to get his father out of the way. However, Nuri will soon regret what he wished for.
Hisham Matar's first novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won six international literary awards. The Times called it ''Extraordinary . . . One of the most brilliant literary debuts of recent years"
Thursday 7 April 2011 | 16:00
Corpus Christi College - MBI Al Jaber Building
Christ Church War Memorial Gardens
St Aldate’s
Oxford
OX1 1DP
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