Maps (Paperback)
| Author: Nuruddin Farah |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0140296433
ISBN-13: 9780140296433
Sku: 30642199
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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(in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 0.5T
Pages:
288
Age Range:
22 to UP
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| *Author: Farah, Nuruddin *Publication Date: 2000/11/01 *Number of Pages: 16 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 5.50 *Height: 8.00 |
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MAPS is part of Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, about the civil strife in Somalia under a totalitarian dictatorship. Askar, whose parents are dead, has been raised by an Ethiopian woman, Misra--and because Somalia is at war with Ethiopia, Askar's loyalties are divided. But Misra gives him the maps that fascinate him all his life, and that awaken in him an interest in boundaries and limits as well as in other places.
MAPS is part of Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, about the civil strife in Somalia under a totalitarian dictatorship. Askar, whose parents are dead, has been raised by an Ethiopian woman, Misra--and because Somalia is at war with Ethiopia, Askar's loyalties are divided. But Misra gives him the maps that fascinate him all his life, and that awaken in him an interest in boundaries and limits as well as in other places.
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"MAPS is a true and rich work. Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's finest novelists." - Salman Rushdie Kirkus Reviews
"One of the best novels out of Africa in some time." 07/15/1999 Washington Post Book World
"What has been so extraordinary about Farah's fiction from the very beginning is the central place he has given women....What Farah accomplishes with such conviction is a linkage between motherhood and nationhood." - Charles Larson 09/26/1999 Wall Street Journal
"The power of MAPS lies only partially in the unfolding destinies of the characters. Ultimately, it is the narrative voice of the novel--lush, poetic, ambiguous, sometimes difficult to follow as it flits from character to character with the barest of segues, hallucinatory in tone like the many visions that come to Askar, reaching the end of the story and then looping snakelike to the beginning--that holds us." - Chitra Divakaruni 09/10/1999
"MAPS is a true and rich work. Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's finest novelists." - Salman Rushdie Kirkus Reviews
"One of the best novels out of Africa in some time." 07/15/1999 Washington Post Book World
"What has been so extraordinary about Farah's fiction from the very beginning is the central place he has given women....What Farah accomplishes with such conviction is a linkage between motherhood and nationhood." - Charles Larson 09/26/1999 Wall Street Journal
"The power of MAPS lies only partially in the unfolding destinies of the characters. Ultimately, it is the narrative voice of the novel--lush, poetic, ambiguous, sometimes difficult to follow as it flits from character to character with the barest of segues, hallucinatory in tone like the many visions that come to Askar, reaching the end of the story and then looping snakelike to the beginning--that holds us." - Chitra Divakaruni 09/10/1999
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