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    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Maps

Maps

Farah, Nuruddin

Paperback

Series: The Blood in the Sun Trilogy, Book 1

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 1628725850
ISBN13: 9781628725858
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: Feb 2 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.--Nadine Gordimer

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. 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 war. Askar throws himself into radical political activity in the midst of the turmoil. As allegations of murder and treason are leveled at Misra, Askar's personal sense identity and Somalia's political boundaries will be challenged with a ferocity he could have never imagined.

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