Nuruddin Farah

Blood in the Sun

1 - Secrets (Dec-1999)
2 - Gifts (Nov-2000)
3 - Maps (Dec-2000)

Jeebleh

1 - Links (Apr-2004)
2 - Crossbones (Sep-2011)

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  Sardines
  

  • Jan-1981
  • / Political Thriller
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  Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

  Farah's landmark Variations 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 second of t...

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  Secrets
  

  • Dec-1999
  • / Literary
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  Blood in the Sun - 1
  

  “With Secrets, Nuruddin Farah solidifies his reputation as one of the world’s great writers.” -- Ishmael ReedSet against the backdrop of the civil war in Somalia, this stunningly ambitious novel was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Fiction ...

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  Gifts
  

  • Nov-2000
  • / Literary
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  Blood in the Sun - 2
  

  The second novel in Farah's acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts tells the story of Duniya, a single mother working at the hospital in Mogadiscio, Somalia's capital city. Times are hard, but they get even more complicated when Duniya's rebelliou...

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  Maps
  

  • Dec-2000
  • / Literary
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  Blood in the Sun - 3
  

  Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the ...

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  From a Crooked Rib
  

  • Dec-2003
  • / General Fiction
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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 eigh...

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  Links
  

  • Apr-2004
  • / Literary
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  Jeebleh - 1
  

  From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, 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 nostalgi...

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  Close Sesame
  

  • Sep-2006
  • / General Fiction
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  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 t...

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  Sweet and Sour Milk
  

  • Sep-2006
  • / Literary
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  Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award

  The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his ...

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  Knots
  

  • Feb-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn 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), Nu...

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  Crossbones
  

  • Sep-2011
  • / Literary
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  Jeebleh - 2
  

  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 Jee...

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  Hiding in Plain Sight
  

  • Nov-2014
  • / Literary
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  From an acclaimed African writer, a novel about family, freedom, and loyalty. When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Mogadiscio, she’s in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali mo...

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  North of Dawn
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Literary
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  A bold, absorbing novel about a couple whose tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've...

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