North of dawn / Nuruddin Farah.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018Description: 373 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780735214231
- 0735214239
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Farah, Nuruddin | Available | 33111008934206 | ||||
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Main Library | Fiction | Farah, Nuruddin | Available | 33111009292109 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From Somalia's most celebrated novelist comes this bold novel about a couple whose life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful life and raised two children. But when their son kills himself in a suicide attack in Somalia, the couple reluctantly offer their daughter-in-law and teenage grandchildren a home. On arrival, Waliya and her daughter cloak themselves more deeply in religion, while her son hungers for new freedoms, in a rift that will have life-altering consequences for them all.
A Somalian couple's tranquil life abroad in Oslo is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their jihadist son's widow and children, who respectively retreat into strict religion and hunger for freedoms in a new homeland.