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Past ImperfectSeries

This series delves into the complexities of identity and homecoming, exploring the clash of cultures and personal transformation. The narratives follow characters grappling with their pasts and seeking their place in a world marked by conflict and change. It offers profound insights into human resilience and the search for meaning amidst adversity. Follow the journeys of individuals striving to reconcile their roots with the realities of the present.

Crossbones
Links
Knots

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    Links

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.4(499)Add rating

    From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn , Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature.Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip--his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother's grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend's family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.

    Links
  2. 2

    Knots

    • 436 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    3.2(14)Add rating

    From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (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.

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