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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...

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...

Der große afrikanische Erzähler Nuruddin Farah erhielt 1998 für »Geheimnisse« den Neustadt International Prize for Literature, den, so die New York Times, »wichtigsten literarischen Preis nach dem Nobelpreis«. Mit dieser Auszeichnung wurde ein Roman geehrt, mit dem Farah, dessen Bücher bisher in siebzehn Sprachen erschienen sind, seinem Kontinent Afrika ein Denkmal gesetzt hat, spielt in Mogadischu, eine Woche vor dem Ausbruch des Bürgerkrieges: Das Land ist voller Unruhe, in der Stadt wird überall gekämpft, da erhält Kalaman überraschend Besuch - von seiner Kindheitsliebe,...

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...