Gifts - Hardcover

Farah, Nuruddin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559704845 ISBN 13: 9781559704847

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

The second in the author's Blood in the Sun trilogy, the novel explores life in Somolia through two decades of civil strife.

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Review:

One of Africa s major writers . . . a genuine artist . . . His mastery of complex forms of narration, based on echoes, symmetry, and musical patterns, make his an original voice. "Times Literary Supplement"
Farah is in control of his enormous talents as a novelist, writing in the best tradition of Solzhenitsyn and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. . . . One of his continent s major novelists. "World Literature Today"
Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists. Salman Rushdie"

"One of Africa's major writers . . . a genuine artist . . . His mastery of complex forms of narration, based on echoes, symmetry, and musical patterns, make his an original voice." --Times Literary Supplement

"Farah is in control of his enormous talents as a novelist, writing in the best tradition of Solzhenitsyn and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. . . . One of his continent's major novelists." --World Literature Today

"Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists."--Salman Rushdie

About the Author:

Nurudin Farah is the author of nine novels, including From a Crooked Rib, Links and his Blood in the Sun trilogy: Maps, Gifts, and Secrets. His novels have been translated into seventeen languages and have won numerous awards. Farah was named the 1998 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, "widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary award after the Nobel" (The New York Times). Born in Baidoa, Somalia, he now lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife and their children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1559704845
• ISBN 13: 9781559704847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246