Hisham Matar
Anatomy of a Disappearance
- Date & Time
- 16 Apr 2011 - 18:00pm
- Venue
- Cambridge Union Dining Room
- Ticket price
- £6
- Booking URL
- http://www.adctheatre.com/shows/show/879
- Genre
- Fiction
- Authors
Master storyteller Hisham Matar joins us to discuss his new novel Anatomy of a Disappearance. Taking us to the territory of his Cairo homeland, he tells the story of a young boy Nuri, and the disappearance is that of his mother who dies leaving him bereft.
Hisham Matar is the son of a prominent Libyan dissident and author of the Booker shortlisted novel In the Country of Men
The Full Line up
- Noel 'Razor' Smith
- Carole Angier
- Philip Ardagh
- Simon Armitage
- Neil Astley
- Patrick Barkham
- Kevin Barry
- Katharine Birbalsingh
- Jan Blake
- Alex Bowler
- Mary Chamberlain
- Julia Churchill
- Sally Cline
- Stefan Collini
- Martin Davidson
- Jill Dawson
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Isobel Dixon
- Sarah Dunant
- Martin Figura
- Arthur Flyte
- Wordfest For Children
- Amanda Foreman
- Judy Forshaw
- Antonia Fraser
- Michael Frayn
- Dawn French
- Luke Gamble
- Juliet Gardiner
- Martin Gayford
- Vanessa Gebbie
- Robert Goddard
- Isabelle Grey
- Maggi Hambling
- Chris Hamilton-Emery
- Sophie Hannah
- Luke Harding
- Sam Harris
- Alexandra Harris
- John Harris
- Philip Hensher
- Henry Hitchings
- Mary Horlock
- Amy Husband
- Will Hutton
- Celia Imrie
- PD James
- Zarghuna Kargar
- Nicola Killen
- David Leigh
- Sonia Leong
- Mark Logue
- Ben Macintyre
- Mark Malloch-Brown
- André Mangeot
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Hisham Matar
- Alex McBride
- James McConnachie
- Robert McCrum
- Ian McEwan
- Roger McGough
- Nicola Morgan
- Don Paterson
- Arlene Phillips
- Chris Priestley
- Louise Rennison
- Tristram Riley-Smith
- Alex Scarrow
- Natasha Schmidt
- Moving Stories
- Peter Taylor
- Leah Thaxton
- Colin Thubron
- Salil Tripathi
- Paul Trynka
- Nicola Upson
- Ian Whybrow
- Luke Williams
