Knots (Paperback)

From the Publisher: Returning to her native home in Somalia after being raised in North America and suffering a failed marriage, self-reliant Cambara struggles to reclaim her family's home from a warlord and finds support from a group of women activists. By the award-winning author of Links. Reprint.From the internationally revered author of Links comes Â?a beautiful, hopeful novel about one womanÂ's return to war-ravaged MogadishuÂ? (Time) || Called Â?one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fictionÂ? (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.