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From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with Knots, the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, Knots is another Farah masterwork.
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Knots, Nuruddin Farah
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
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- Titel
- Knots
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Nuruddin Farah
- Verlag
- Penguin
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 436
- ISBN10
- 0143112988
- ISBN13
- 9780143112983
- Reihe
- Vergangene Fehler
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Gegenwartsliteratur, Feminismus, Afrika, Afrikanische Literatur, Somalia
- Bewertung
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- Beschreibung
- From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with Knots, the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, Knots is another Farah masterwork.