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North of Dawn

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214255
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book North of Dawn written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gifts

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724900
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Gifts written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts is the beguiling tale of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole. Duniya is a single mother, raising twins while working as a nurse in a Mogadiscio hospital. Her self-sufficient world is rocked when her rebellious daughter brings home a mysterious foundling infant. And when Duniya accepts a ride to work from a wealthy, romantically interested family friend, her whole life is turned upside down. Meanwhile, the hospital where she works is besieged by a desperate population ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine. Western relief agencies have invaded Somalia with their charity, and some Somalis chafe at tainted goods and the burden of debts they can never hope to repay. With lyrical, luxuriant prose, Farah weaves a spellbinding tapestry of reportage, dreams, memory, folktales, and family lore. In his hands, Duniya's tale becomes emblematic of the struggles of an entire people. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Links

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548479
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Links written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Hiding in Plain Sight

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780748000
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years' (New York Review of Books) comes a novel set in Somalia and Kenya about family, freedom and loyalty When Bella, an internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling and aloof, is forced to return to Nairobi to care for her teenage niece and nephew, she feels an unfamiliar surge of protectiveness and responsibility. But when their mother unexpectedly resurfaces, reasserting her maternal rights and bringing with her a gale of chaos and confusion that mirrors the deepening political instability in the region, Bella must decide whether she can – or must – come to their rescue.

Maps

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559704854
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Maps written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

From a Crooked Rib

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101097647
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book From a Crooked Rib written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Crossbones

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101552107
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Crossbones written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Knots

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101202025
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Knots written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sweet and Sour Milk

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sweet and Sour Milk written by Nuruddin Farah and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Sardines

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Sardines written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secrets

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559704274
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Secrets written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Close Sesame

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Close Sesame written by Nuruddin Farah and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Yesterday, Tomorrow

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday, Tomorrow written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reading Nuruddin Farah

Author : F. Fiona Moolla
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782042385
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Reading Nuruddin Farah written by F. Fiona Moolla and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Naked Needle

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Naked Needle written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Land Without Shadows

Author : Abdourahman A. Waberi
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925080
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Land Without Shadows written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in France in 1994, this newly translated collection presents stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. With irony and humor, these short stories portray madmen, poets, artists, French colonists, pseudointellectuals, young women, aspiring politicians, famished refugees, khat chewers, nomads struggling to survive in Djibouti's ruthless natural environment, or tramps living (and dying) in Balbala, the shantytown that stretches to the south of the capital--Cover.

What Is a World?

Author : Pheng Cheah
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374536
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book What Is a World? written by Pheng Cheah and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature’s world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical accounts of the world as a temporal process: idealism, Marxist materialism, phenomenology, and deconstruction. Literature opens worlds, he provocatively suggests, because it is a force of receptivity. Cheah compellingly argues for postcolonial literature’s exemplarity as world literature through readings of narrative fiction by Michelle Cliff, Amitav Ghosh, Nuruddin Farah, Ninotchka Rosca, and Timothy Mo that show how these texts open up new possibilities for remaking the world by negotiating with the inhuman force that gives time and deploying alternative temporalities to resist capitalist globalization.