It is the week before the outbreak of the civil war in Somalia. Kalaman, a successful young businessman in Mogadiscio receives an unexpected house guest--the wild and sexually adventurous Sholoongo, his childhood crush returned from America. She announces that she intends to have his baby. Confronte[...]

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 [...]

A shocking debut novel by the acclaimed African writer recounts the story of Elba and of a rural girl's life and unhappy marriage in Mogadishu, in a celebration of the human spirit and a challenge to male chauvinism. Original. 15,000 first printing.[...]

A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist." ("The New York Times Review of Books") 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 ongoi[...]

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 the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the na[...]

A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist." ("The New York Times Review of Books") 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 ongoi[...]

The Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, is one of the most important African writers today. The central question that this book investigates is the relationship between modern identity and the novel as a genre. Nuruddin Farah's novels are shown by Moolla to encompass the history of the novel: from the[...]

A gripping novel about zealotry, pirates and Somalia in crisis.

Nyskrivet förord till Nuruddin Farahs Gåvor av litteraturvetaren Hilda Härgestam Strandberg. Om Gåvor: Duniya gavs själv bort som en gåva, att bli hustru till en blind man gammal nog att vara hennes farfar. Hon är nu en 35-årig singelmamma och barnmorska vid ett sjukhus i Mogadishu, med er[...]

Nyskrivet förord till Nuruddin Farahs Kartor av litteraturvetaren Nicklas Hållén. Om Kartor: Askar förlorade sin mor när han föddes och sin far i kriget mellan Somalia och Egypten om regionen Ogaden. Han tas om hand av Misra, en oromo-kvinna, i Kallafo i Ogaden. Askar förblir känslomässig[...]

Presents an account of the experience of a girl named Ebla, who runs away from her rural family, settles in Mogadishu, the capital, and marries an educated man with unhappy results.[...]