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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
“The Lost Father is a sequel in spirit to Mona Simpson’s first novel, the best-selling ‘Anywhere But Here.’ Intimate in scale, it is profound in implication: a study of the effects of being unfathered.
29. März 2023 · The Lost Father by Marina Warner. Warner luxuriates in sensual, poeticised language that’s thick with tactile details and rich metaphors. The novel is narrated by Anna Collouthar, a 38-year-old, divorced mother of one who works as an archivist, curating children’s ephemera at a London museum.
1. Jan. 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. It won widespread critical praise even before the Booker shortlist ...
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.
Davide Pittagora, her grandfather, died from a bullet wound and his ‘duel’ is the pivot on which this independent, modern woman turns an imaginary memoir of her mother’s family.
