Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, 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...
Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadi...
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...
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values...
From the internationally revered author of Links 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,...
From the internationally revered author of Links comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time)...
One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view, The Land without Shadows is a collection of seventeen short stories. The author, Abdourahman A. Waberi, one of a handful of francophone writers of fiction to have emerged in the twentieth century from the -confetti-sized state- of Djibouti, has already won international recognition and prizes in African literature for his stories and novel. Because his writing is linked to immigration and exile, his native Djibouti occupies center stage in his work. Drawing on the Somali/Djiboutian oral tradition to...
One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view, The Land without Shadows is a collection of seventeen s...
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...
Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardine...
Cambara, eine willensstarke Frau, beschließt, aus ihrer Wahlheimat Toronto in ihr Geburtsland Somalia zurückzukehren. Ihr geliebter Sohn ist durch die Unachtsamkeit ihres Mannes ums Leben gekommen, doch die Reise ist nicht nur eine Flucht: Cambara will das alte Anwesen ihrer Familie den Händen eines Warlords entreißen. Das Mogadischu, in das sie kommt, ist schwer gezeichnet vom Bürgerkrieg: Jugendliche mit automatischen Waffen patrouillieren die Straßen, Clan-Rivalitäten, Langeweile und das allgegenwärtige Kaat haben die einstmals lebendige Stadt im Griff, islamistische Gruppen nutzen...
Cambara, eine willensstarke Frau, beschließt, aus ihrer Wahlheimat Toronto in ihr Geburtsland Somalia zurückzukehren. Ihr geliebter Sohn ist durch d...
Staatszerfall, Bandenterror, die innere Zerrissenheit afrikanischer Nationen was uns nur schlagwortartig bekannt ist, fügt sich im neuen Roman von Nurrudin Farah zu einem meisterhaft gezeichneten, manchmal alptraumhaften Panorama seines Heimatlandes Somalia, zu einer exemplarischen Geschichte von verrohten Herzen und dem Wert der Menschlichkeit. Links erzählt von Jeebleh, der aus dem New Yorker Exil nach Mogadischu zurückkehrt und eine vom Bürgerkrieg korrumpierte Gesellschaft vorfindet, die er nicht mehr versteht, in der er niemandem trauen kann, schon gar nicht den eigenen Verwandten....
Staatszerfall, Bandenterror, die innere Zerrissenheit afrikanischer Nationen was uns nur schlagwortartig bekannt ist, fügt sich im neuen Roman von Nu...
A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Book Review)
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...
A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Book Review)
Askars Geburt im Ogaden, dem von Äthiopien annektierten Hochland, wird von traurigen Ereignissen überschattet: Seine Mutter stirbt kurz nach der Entbindung, sein Vater, Angehöriger der Western Somali Liberation Front, ist bei einem Kampfeinsatz ums Leben gekommen. Askars Ziehmutter wird Misra, die nicht aus Somalia, sondern aus Äthiopien stammt. Zwischen den beiden entwickelt sich eine Welt von Liebe und Vertrauen, die sich von der Gewalt des Bürgerkriegs abhebt. Doch Misra lebt nicht nur für Askar; auch Askars Onkel Qorrax und Aw-Adan, Priester des Dorfes, erheben Anspruch auf ihre...
Askars Geburt im Ogaden, dem von Äthiopien annektierten Hochland, wird von traurigen Ereignissen überschattet: Seine Mutter stirbt kurz nach der Ent...
