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Knots by Nuruddin Farah (2007, Hardcover) 
Knots by Nuruddin Farah (2007, Hardcover)

 
Knots by Nuruddin Farah (2007, Hardcover)

Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1594489246
ISBN-13: 9781594489242
Product ID: EPID53573436
Description: Since 1991, Somalia has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Into this chaos, Cambara, a Somalia-born actress living in Canada, returns to reclaim items from her family estate that a warlord in Mogadishu has stolen. Behind her i...
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Since 1991, Somalia has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Into this chaos, Cambara, a Somalia-born actress living in Canada, returns to reclaim items from her family estate that a warlord in Mogadishu has stolen. Behind her in Canada lies another kind of trauma: her son drowned while her husband was sleeping with his mistress. In Mogadishu she is forced to live with her hateful cousin Zaak, and the Islamic fundamentalists make it unsafe for her leave the house without her body covered. Tangled in a world of pain, Cambara's attempts to find meaning, friends, and even love, seems impossible, but Nuruddin Farah, writing with a fierce optimism, shows Cambara gradually making sense out of madness--in this respect, KNOTS acts as a small bright light for hope in a blighted country.

Details
Publication Date:2007-02-01

Size
Length:422 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Born in Somalia but raised in North America, independent-minded Cambara returns to Mogadiscio after a failed marriage in the hopes of freeing her family from an oppressive warlord, an effort in which she is supported by a group of Somali women activists.

Industry Reviews
"KNOTS is a powerful dissection of a fragmented society....KNOTS combines faith in a beleaguered people with grave analysis of an imploded society."
(02/01/2007)

"Nuruddin Farah's calm, profoundly humane new noel, KNOTS...presents one very , tentative hopeful answer to the question left hanging at the end of BLACK HAWK DOWN: What future is there for a country that has spun so wildly out of control?"
(02/02/2007)

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