Maps Farah NuruddinPaperback
Maps Farah NuruddinPaperback "Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his…
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Maps Farah NuruddinPaperback
"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. His insight goes deep, beyond events."--Nadine GordimerWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers.
Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital.In dangerous and turbulent Mogadiscio, Somalis are struggling to recreate a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of modernity and the betrayals of civil