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      From a Crooked Rib

      by Nuruddin Farah
      Published
      Dec 2003
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      192
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      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 has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."

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      First Edition Dec 2003 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141187174 ISBN10 0141187174
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      Jan 1970 William Heinemann (UK) ISBN13 9780435900809 ISBN10 0435900803
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      Jul 2006 Penguin ISBN13 9780143037262 ISBN10 0143037269
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      Jul 2006 Penguin ISBN13 9781101097649 ISBN10 1101097647
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