Anatomy of a Disappearance

Matar suffuses Nuri's education in love and loss with an erotic frisson and fragile grace that lend the book an inner radiance

Independent

Submerged grief gives this fine novel the mythic inexorability of Greek tragedy

Economist

Sensually written, there is an extravagant feel even to the simplest sentence. From start to finish that exquisitely profound quality of uncertainty is the most wrenching aspect of all

Sunday Telegraph