Nuruddin Farah, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-57322-265-5
In this stunning, timely novel from the internationally acclaimed Somalian writer Farah (From a Crooked Rib
, etc.), Jeebleh, a middle-aged Somalian, leaves his family in New York to return for the first time in 20 years to his birthplace, civil war&
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Nuruddin Farah, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (422p) ISBN 978-1-59448-924-2
Somalia-born Farah's ninth novel (after Links
, first in a trilogy of which this is the second book) tells the spellbinding story of Cambara, a Somalian émigré to Canada. Cambara is mourning her only son's drowning death—i
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Nuruddin Farah, Author Graywolf Press $14 (263p) ISBN 978-1-55597-159-5
Farah offers social, political and religious commentary on his native Somalia in these three novels; the first, Sweet and Sour Milk , is the elegantly crafted tale of a man's investigation of his revolutionary twin's mysterious death. (May)
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Nuruddin Farah. Riverhead, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59448-816-0
Somali-born Farah (Knots) completes his Past Imperfect trilogy with an insightful portrait of his African country imploding so furiously that neither well-educated citizens nor well-meaning exiles who return can alter the trajectory. Farah's novel...
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Nuruddin Farah. Riverhead, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59463-336-2
Somali writer Farah's (Crossbones) 12th novel takes on religious extremism and sexual politics in Africa in this bold but ponderous novel about a woman reassembling her family in the wake of a tragic event. After her older half-brother, Aar, a high-r
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Nuruddin Farah, Author, Nurrudin Farah, Author Arcade Publishing $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55970-484-7
In Gifts, the second volume in Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy (see Maps, above), the same forces of war and unrest in Somalia shape the life of Duniya, a widowed nurse with three children trying to juggle a career and the emotional needs of a...
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Nuruddin Farah, Author, Nurrudin Farah, Author Arcade Publishing $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55970-485-4
Maps and Gifts (see below) are the first two volumes in Farah's second trilogy, Blood in the Sun (after the acclaimed, three-volume Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship), but they stand as prequels to the previously published, award-win
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Nuruddin Farah. Riverhead, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1423-1
Farah (Links) sacrifices depth for a rapid, lackluster jaunt through the complications of Somali immigrants in contemporary Norway. Gacalo and Mugdi’s quiet life in Oslo is upended when their son perpetrates a suicide bombing in Somalia. Gacalo...
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