The Disappearance

Name: The Disappearance
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Efrem Sigel
ISBN: 9781433292590

Author: Efrem Sigel

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 05/01/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

When Joshua and Nathalie Sandlers only child, fourteenyearold Daniel, disappears one day in a hamlet in western Massachusetts, their world changes in an instant. Over the next year, Joshua neglects everything else to search ceaselessly for their son, while Nathalie, a gifted cellist, withdraws into herself, unable to play even a note of music. With lyrical prose and building suspense, Sigel portrays the anguish of parents who, despite the crushing burden of uncertainty and grief, must continue to live their lives. We meet various townspeople with motives and secrets of their own who might be involved in the disappearance or its aftermath. As the mystery of Daniels disappearance deepens, Joshua and Nathalie struggle to find new meaning in their existence and to discover if their fragmented marriage can ever be made whole again.

About Efrem Sigel

Efrem Sigel is the author of The Kermanshah Transfer, a novel, as well as five books of nonfiction and nineteen short stories, a number of which have won prizes or earned Pushcart nominations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Allison

I was delighted to receive this novel through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program. From the first paragraph of lush, gorgeous prose, in which Sigel describes Joshua running toward the light in The Hollow, I knew this would be a heartbreaking, yet uplifting book. The title is a bit misleading, as t......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Basic Overview The Disappearance is about every parent's worst nightmare -- the unexplained disappearance of a child. The Sandler family is a happy, affluent family spending the summer in the small Massachusetts town of Smithfield. The two parents -- Joshua and Nathalie -- dote on their 14-year-old s......more

Goodreads review by Clark

The Disappearance by Efrem Sigel is a gripping novel about a search for truth and what is behind the mysterious disappearance of Dan Sandler. Sigel presents a powerful main character, Joshua Sandler, who relentlessly pursues what happened to his son. Efrem Sigel is an award winning author who wrote......more

Goodreads review by Robyn

*Disclaimer: The author of this book is the husband of one of my Mom's dear college friends. That fact has no bearing on my review (although it was the impetus for me picking up the book in the first place). The Disappearance is different from the average 'missing kid' book (of which I've read a lot......more