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The Names That Travel
Paperback
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9789198860962
Publisher: Borderless Africa Books
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Ayaan, a Swedish-Somali journalist, begins tracing an old family legend about a blue bowl, two keys, and an ancestor said to have carried a giraffe to the court of a Chinese emperor, she expects a story.
Instead, she finds names, debts, vanished rooms and carefully guarded silences stretching from Mogadishu to London - and back toward a fifteenth-century Indian Ocean voyage.
Moving between Sa'id's journey in 1417 and Ayaan's present-day search through archives, family testimony and inherited objects, The Names That Travel follows what happens when family memory meets the limits of documentary proof.
A literary historical mystery about migration, inheritance, and the stories that survive when evidence cannot tell us everything.
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