Secrets - Hardcover

Farah, Nuruddin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559704276 ISBN 13: 9781559704274

Publisher: Arcade Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Praised for his grasp of literary English, one of Africa's most distinguished novelists illuminates the culture and ideology of his native country through a novel set against the background of Somalia's civil war.

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Review:

"Nuruddin Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the last twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction". -- The New York Review of Books

From the Publisher:

Rave Reviews
In his bewitching saga, "Secrets," Somalian novelist Nuruddin Farah conjures a strange and densely spirited world. Immediately, the reader is immersed in a jumble of folklore, allegories, visions and sorcery. This is Somalia in 1995, and the echoing gunfire of clan violence and civil war is creeping into the capital of Mogadishu. But even more portentous are Farah's characters, whose consciences are as troubled as their country...With "Secrets," Farah, who was awarded this year's Neustadt International Prize for Literature (the most prestigious literary award after the Nobel), continues to delve into the hearts and minds of a people remembered by the West only when terror bubbles to the surface. The fault lines of tragedy, however, run much deeper. (Time Out New York, May 21, 1998)

Nuruddin Farah's hypnotic new novel, "Secrets" is...a shape-shifter--murder mystery, family saga, magical-realist thriller...Suspense builds secret upon secret..."Secrets" is rich with figurative language and parable. (New York Newsday, May 3, 1998)

Spellbinding, luminous prose. (Baltimore Sun, May 10, 1998)

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1559704276
• ISBN 13: 9781559704274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298