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CROSSBONES Paperback - 2012
by FARAH, NURUDDIN
- Used
Jeebleh and his journalist son-in-law, Malik, return to Somalia which is now gripped by religionist fervor. Accompanying them is Ahl who is searching for his stepson who has been recruited as a pirate.
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Details
- Title CROSSBONES
- Author FARAH, NURUDDIN
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 385
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2012-10-30
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1354591
- ISBN 9780143122531 / 0143122533
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 1 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Political fiction, Americans - Somalia
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Book Review)
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 ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips.
Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war.
Completing the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.
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Citations
- New York Review of Books, 11/08/2012, Page 41
- New York Times Book Review, 11/11/2012, Page 52