Secrets - Softcover

Farah, Nuruddin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140280456 ISBN 13: 9780140280456

Verlag: Penguin, 1999

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Praised for his grasp of literary English, one of Africa's most distinguished novelists illuminates the culture and ideology of his native country through a novel set against the background of Somalia's civil war. Reprint.

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Nurudin Farah is the author of nine novels, including From a Crooked Rib,Links and his Blood in the Sun trilogy: Maps, Gifts, andSecrets. His novels have been translated into seventeen languages and have won numerous awards. Farah was named the 1998 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, "widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary award after the Nobel" (The New York Times). Born in Baidoa, Somalia, he now lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife and their children.

Nurudin Farah is the author of nine novels, including From a Crooked Rib,Links and his Blood in the Sun trilogy: Maps, Gifts, andSecrets. His novels have been translated into seventeen languages and have won numerous awards. Farah was named the 1998 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, "widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary award after the Nobel" (The New York Times). Born in Baidoa, Somalia, he now lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife and their children.

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Set against the backdrop of Somalia's devastating civil war, Secrets is a stunning revelatory novel by one of the major figures of modern African literature. The city of Mogadiscio is in crisis when the protagonist, Kalaman, receives an unexpected house guest, his childhood crush returned from America. Sensual and demanding, Sholoongo announces her intention to have his child, pulling Kalaman back into a past full of doubts and secrets. As Kalaman begins to tear apart the myth that is his family, he uncovers the starting truth of his own conception.

Secrets displays Farah's talents to the fullest. His "daring, lush, urbane voice" (The New York Times Book Review) evokes the beauty and tragedy that is Africa. It will stand as one of the great works of modern African literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140280456
• ISBN 13: 9780140280456
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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