Cities exist, hishamjmatar postulates, to “render us more intelligent and more intelligible to each other”
was a businessman and dissident in Muammar Qadaffi’s Libya. In 1979 he fled to Cairo with his family. One afternoon in 1990, when his son Hisham was 19 and studying in London, Jaballa was “kidnapped, bundled into an unmarked airplane and flown back to Libya. He was imprisoned and gradually, like salt dissolving in water, was made to vanish.”Jaballa has been missing ever since, an absence that has been the central preoccupation of Hisham Matar’s work.
Mr Matar’s pilgrimage to Siena and his quest to unravel the disappearance are not as unrelated as they may at first seem. Around the same time that he “lost” his father, and “for reasons that still remain unclear to me now”, he writes, “I began to visit the National Gallery in London every day during my lunch break.” He became fascinated by the work of Duccio di Buoninsegna, a Sienese painter, whose “Annunciation” and “Jesus Opens the Eyes of a Man Born Blind” are in the gallery’s collection.
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