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Close Sesameby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0805281770 (0-8052-8177-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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From a Crooked Ribby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0141187174 (0-14-118717-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From a Crooked Rib'Book summary:Published for the first time in the U. S.-internationally celebrated writer Nuruddin Farah-s first novel
Written with complete conviction from a woman-s point of view, Nuruddin Farah-s spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are -sold like cattle.- BACKCOVER: -Nuruddin Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction.-
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-It-s easy to see why Nuruddin Farah-s name keeps coming up as a likely recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature.-
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Giftsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0140296425 (0-14-029642-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gifts'Book summary:Though he has lived in exile for the last 20 years, Nuruddin Farah's eye never strays far from his native Somalia. In Maps and Secrets, the first and third volumes in his Blood in the Sun trilogy, he explored the devastating effects of tribal hatred and civil war on his society; the middle volume, Gifts, however, is of a different stripe altogether. Though also set in Somalia, it is a sunnier, more optimistic novel, and a love story, to boot. The protagonist is Duniya, a nurse at a maternity hospital in Mogadishu. Once widowed and once divorced, she has experienced the injustices heaped upon women in her culture--as a young girl Duniya was given by her father to an elderly man to be his wife; after his death she remarried, only to have her child taken from her by her alcoholic husband's family when they divorced. Free at last, she has no intentions of getting entangled again--until she meets Bosaaso, an American-educated economist who has returned to Somalia to help his country during its economic crisis:
Duniya thought that marriage was a place she had been to twice already, but love was a palace she hadn't had the opportunity to set foot in before now. If what she and Bosaaso were doing was the beginning of a long courtship that might eventually lead to such a many-roomed mansion of love, so be it. So far she had only seen glimpses of it, in a rear-view mirror, in the eyes of a driver who wasn't a taxi driver.
But love is not all Nuruddin has on his mind. He constantly reexamines the theme of gifts, from the personal gifting of one's body or heart to the impersonal "aid" bestowed by wealthy nations upon the poorer ones. But Gifts is hardly a political tract, for it consistently eschews the general in favor of the particular. In tracing Duniya's budding relationship with Bosaaso, Nuruddin not only tells the love story of two individuals but also etches a remarkable portrait of women in Somalia. The relationship between Duniya and Bosaaso is sweet, funny, and tender, but it is in her ties to her women friends and daughters that the book shines. As she learns to swim and drive, to stand up to her overbearing former in-laws and to trust her heart, it is within the context of an extended web of friends and family. Maps and Secrets expose the uglier aspects of war-torn Somalia; Gifts, on the other hand, offers its hidden strengths. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Gifts:
Knotsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 1410407624 (1-4104-0762-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Land Without Shadowsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0813925088 (0-8139-2508-8)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Linksby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0143034847 (0-14-303484-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Links'Book summary:[via]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 twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia triphis 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 mothers grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friends 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.
Mapsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0140296433 (0-14-029643-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maps'Book summary: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.[via]
Naked Needleby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0435901842 (0-435-90184-2)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Sardinesby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0435902520 (0-435-90252-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Education
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Secretsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0140280456 (0-14-028045-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secrets'Book summary:In Secrets, Somalian author Nuruddin Farah has conjured a densely woven tale of betrayal, hidden agendas, and tangled relationships that is both a deeply personal story in and of itself and emblematic of the greater problems that continue to tear his country apart today. As a boy, young Kalaman used to creep into the bed of his childhood playmate, Sholoongo, and the two would engage in secret games of sexual discovery. A quarter of a century later, Kalaman is a businessman in Mogadishu on the eve of Somalia's civil war when Sholoongo arrives unexpectedly from America, bringing with her the reminder of an old, half-forgotten promise.
The secrets start early in Farah's novel: As a child, Kalaman questions even the origins of his own name, wondering if his unusual appellation in a world of Mohammeds and Abdous is an indication that he is not, after all, his father's child. Then there is the question of why his mother seems to dislike Sholoongo, whom his grandfather, Nonno, describes as "a duugan, that is to say, a baby to be buried." If Kalaman's origins are slightly murky, Sholoongo's are mired in mystery. One version has her abandoned by her mother and raised by lions. Whatever the truth of the girl's history, it is generally agreed by most people in Kalaman's village that she is probably a witch, and therefore trouble. Certainly Kalaman's mother, Damac, mistrusts her, believing her to have "animal powers" and designs on her son. Farah reveals all this in a tantalizing introductory chapter before fast-forwarding 25 years to Mogadishu in the early 1990s, one week before the official outbreak of civil war; Kalaman, now a successful young businessman, comes home to find the long-lost Sholoongo waiting for him in his apartment. Kalaman's first reaction to his old playmate's reappearance is fear: "There was no way of knowing what her visit might bring forth, what mysteries it might unravel, what manner of disastrous debates it might generate.... In other words, there was no telling how much havoc Sholoongo would cause." As it turns out, a great deal.
From here on out, Farah caroms between past and present, alternating chapters narrated by Kalaman, Damac, Sholoongo, and Nonno as he inexorably unravels a skein of lies, secrets, and corruption. As Kalaman learns the truth about himself and his family, that family's destruction mirrors Somalia's hellish descent into sectarian violence and long-simmering tribal hatreds. Politics, passion, sorcery, and myth are just a few of the threads Nuruddin Farah spins into mesmerizing whole cloth in this remarkable, award-winning novel out of Africa. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Trafficby Jessica Hagedorn, Amos Oz, Saul Friedlander, Jacques Derrida, Harold Pinter, Nuruddin Farah , Paul Celan, Seydou KeitaISBN 0965956520 (0-9659565-2-0)
Softcover, Suitcase: A Journal of
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Traffic'Book summary:The pages of Suitcase intertwine the freshest mix of writing, art, and photography from around the world. From Amos Oz's tale of epiphany at the border between Israeli desert and suburbia to Nuruddin Farah's account of surviving childhood, crocodiles, and colonialism in Somalia; from Jacques Derrida's reflections on politics and immigration in a new Europe to Seydou Keita's historic photographs of Mali's changing society, Suitcase's mix of international writing and art reflects a stangely familiar country in which cultures and perspectives jostle and complicate each other. [via]
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Sweet and Sour Milkby Nuruddin FarahISBN 1555971598 (1-55597-159-8)
Softcover, Graywolf Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet and Sour Milk'Book summary:Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award[via]
The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as "Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own" (Chinua Achebe).-
Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diasporaby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0304707023 (0-304-70702-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora'Book summary:The story of the international refugees created by the political tyranny of post-colonial Somalia. The author, an established Somali novelist who went into exile as a form of protest, has interviewed Somalis in Africa and Europe to provide this portrait of how people react, are wounded, how they survive, change and even thrive when they flee their homes and are turned into refugees. It shows how the refugees see themselves and how the host countries treat refugees. It reveals how refugees have adapted, or failed to adapt, to different countries and how their lives became disrupted and recreated as a result of politics and economics. Although it focuses on a particular people, the work should help readers to understand the experiences of people forced by mass migrations to live fragmented lives in the post-modern era of rapid change. [via]
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