Description
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.
Product details
- Publisher : Penguin Books; 10.2.2000 edition (November 1, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0140296433
- ISBN-13 : 978-0140296433
- Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.36 x 0.69 x 8.04 inches
- Condition: Used – Very Good
African Literature, Coming of Age Fiction, Literary Fiction,
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