MAPS.
by FARAH, Nuruddin
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Slight wear at spine, slight fading; VG.
- ISBN 10
- 0394755480
- ISBN 13
- 9780394755489
- Seller
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About This Item
New York,, 1987. First Edition. Wraps.. Slight wear at spine, slight fading; VG.. 8vo. Wraps. Uncorrected proof copy. pp 246. Novel set in Somalia. Loosely inserted is a letter from Helene Franklin at Pantheon Books, New York, to V. S. Naipaul asking for a comment to put on the book's jacket. The book had already been praised by Salman Rushdie and Doris Lessing. ISBN 0394755480.
Synopsis
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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- Seller
- Any Amount of Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- C15540
- Title
- MAPS.
- Author
- FARAH, Nuruddin
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight wear at spine, slight fading; VG.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Wraps.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0394755480
- ISBN 13
- 9780394755489
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1987
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