Nuruddin Farah

Broschiertes Buch

Maps

Beschreibung

A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.

Autor

Nuruddin Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia. He is the author of numerous novels, novellas, short stories, and plays. His novels include Hiding in Plain Sight, Crossbones, and his trilogies Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship and Blood in the Sun, which comprises Maps and Gifts as well as Secrets. After the publication of Sweet and Sour Milk in 1979, Farah became persona non grata in Somalia and served a self-imposed exile of more than twenty years, before he was permitted to visit in 1996. His novels have been translated into many languages and have won numerous international awards. Farah was named the 1998 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He now divides his time between Cape Town, South Africa and Annandale, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcade Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9781628725858
• ISBN-10: 1628725850
• Artikelnr.: 42236253