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The Lost Father is an autobiographical fiction novel written by American novelist Mona Simpson. It is the sequel to Simpson's first novel, Anywhere But Here, and based on her real search for her father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali.
- Mona Simpson
- 1993
But even so, her lifelong obsession returns with a vengeance, disturbing her hard-won stability. This is the story of her search—both emotional and literal—for the father who disappeared. In search of the man without whom she cannot find herself, she hires one detective, then another.
29 de mar. de 2023 · Lucy Scholes revisits The Lost Father by Marina Warner, the author’s third novel which was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1988.
1 de jan. de 2001 · The novel follows Mayan, main character, as she searches for the father she has not since childhood, and of whom no record can be found. Mayan carries her weighty emotional baggage from medical school in New York, to Egypt, her father’s homeland, and across the Western US.
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A lush and densely-drawn inter-generational saga about the mythology and mystery that defines an Italian family, The Lost Father was the novel that established Warner’s reputation as a writer who was equally skilled and as comfortable writing fiction as she was non-fiction.
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10 de ago. de 2011 · Now a woman of twenty-eight and finally on her own in medical school, Mayan becomes obsessed with the father she never knew, leading her to hire detectives to dredge up the past, thus eroding her savings, ruining her career, and flirting with madness in a search spanning two continents.
- Mona Simpson
