From a Crooked Rib

Literature & Fiction

Nuruddin, Farah

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity. 

Maps

World Literature

Pantheon

This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.

MAPS

Links

Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in 20 years. But this is not a nostalgia trip—his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother's grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend's family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.

DUCKWORTH G

Gifts

Tafelberg Publishers Ltd

Sweet and Sour Milk

Allison Busby

First in the author's Blood in the Sun trilogy, the thematic novel tackles the problem of violence and civil war in East Africa.

United States

Arcade Publishing

Crossbones

A gripping new novel from today's "most important African  novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved  Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law,  Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil.  What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however,  but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing  whips.Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region  notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson,  Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an  imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers'  efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the  country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion.  Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are  breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet  shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience  firsthand the derailments of war.Completing the trilogy that began with Links and  Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals  caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by  one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.

Granta Books

Tochter Frau

Frederking & Thaler

Mapas

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