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Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735214248

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North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children hunger for the freedoms of their new homeland, a rift that will have lifealtering consequences for the entire family. Set against the backdrop of real events, North of Dawn is a provocative, devastating story of love, loyalty, and national identity that asks whether it is ever possible to escape a legacy of violence—and if so, at what cost.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594634109

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Hiding in Plain Sight by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

"Adopting her niece and nephew when her half-brother is murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia, half-Somali photographer Bella disciplines her free-spirited nature and reevaluates her options when the children's mother resurfaces."-- Provided by publisher.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143037269

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From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

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."

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559704845

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Gifts by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

Instantly, her whole life is turned upside down."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : F. Fiona Moolla
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781782042389

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Reading Nuruddin Farah by F. Fiona Moolla Pdf

A close analysis of Farah's novels is used to track the contradictions implicit in the notion of the modern, disengaged self and how transformations of the novel in literary history attempt to negotiate this founding contradiction.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101548479

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Links by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, 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 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.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559704853

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Maps by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

As a young adolescent seeking perspective on both his country and himself, Askar goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital, Mogadiscio."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101552100

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Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books), the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn 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.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101202029

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Knots by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with Knots, the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, Knots is another Farah masterwork.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012192558

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Sweet and Sour Milk by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

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).

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015048546850

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Yesterday, Tomorrow by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

The author, a Somali, recounts the stories of Somali refugees and others whose lives were uprooted or terribly transformed by the anarchy in Somalia during the early 1990s.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015013299287

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A Naked Needle by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559704276

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Secrets by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

On her return to Somalia from America, Sholoongo informs her childhood friend, Kalaman, she wants a child by him. As he considers her proposal, Kalaman receives chilling news, Sholoongo was in America to perfect her skills as a witch.

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555971628

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Close Sesame by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the third and final book in the series, the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. An old man finds himself poised in mortal combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in an atmosphere where the distinction between public and private justice is always obscured. Close Sesame is a novel that offers "an eloquent indictment of the tyrannies committed both under Islamic law and in the name of Socialism" (The Observer).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Cooking (Sardines)
ISBN : OCLC:858046925

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Sardines by Anonim Pdf