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      by Farah Nuruddin
      Published
      Aug 1987
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      246
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      This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity. 

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      First Edition Aug 1987 Pantheon (UK) ISBN13 9780394755489 ISBN10 0394755480
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      Jun 2012 Arcade Publishing ISBN10 B008AW5KGY
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