{"title":"Nuruddin Farah","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the poignant and powerful novels of Nuruddin Farah, a master storyteller from Somalia. Delve into themes of identity, exile, and the human condition, rendered with lyrical prose and profound insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"north-of-dawn-book-nuruddin-farah-9780735214255","title":"North of Dawn","description":"\u003cb\u003eA couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children hunger for the freedoms of their new homeland, a rift that will have lifealtering consequences for the entire family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Set against the backdrop of real events, \u003ci\u003eNorth of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative, devastating story of love, loyalty, and national identity that asks whether it is ever possible to escape a legacy of violence-and if so, at what cost.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507540271377,"sku":"GOR011565944","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734610977041,"sku":"NGR9780735214255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361986023697,"sku":"CIN0735214255G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53119545737489,"sku":"NLS9780735214255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53119684149521,"sku":"NIN9780735214255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0735214255.jpg?v=1771323204"},{"product_id":"secrets-book-nuruddin-farah-9780140280456","title":"Secrets","description":"\u003cp\u003eNuruddin Farah cements his name as one of the world's greatest writers with Secrets--Ishmael Reed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wonderfully complex work, set against the backdrop of Somalia's civil war, was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Fiction of the Year selection. In Mogadiscio, the dictator is preparing to escape and clans are swarming into the city, which rattles with machine gun fire. Civilization is collapsing under the weight of its own perversities.Unexpectedly, Kalaman, a businessman who owns a computer store, appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNuruddin Farah blends together myth and magic, shape shifters and tribal knowledge, explicit sensuality and lyrical prose as Kalaman revisits his own coming of age experience and discovers the devastating tale of his family's lost innocence among the ravages of authoritarianism in Secrets, the conclusion of his Blood in the Sun trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotica and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics like Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and more are all published by Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521443307793,"sku":"GOR006968597","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50478398636305,"sku":"CIN0140280456G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50879138038033,"sku":"CIN0140280456VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52111517974801,"sku":"CIN0140280456A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140280456.jpg?v=1750737162"},{"product_id":"gifts-book-nuruddin-farah-9781628725827","title":"Gifts","description":"“Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists.”—Salman Rushdie      The second novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts is the beguiling tale of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole. Duniya is a single mother, raising twins while working as a nurse in a Mogadiscio hospital. Her self-sufficient world is rocked when her rebellious daughter brings home a mysterious foundling infant. And when Duniya accepts a ride to work from a wealthy, romantically interested family friend, her whole life is turned upside down.    Meanwhile, the hospital where she works is besieged by a desperate population ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine. Western relief agencies have invaded Somalia with their charity, and some Somalis chafe at tainted goods and the burden of debts they can never hope to repay. With lyrical, luxuriant prose, Farah weaves a spellbinding tapestry of reportage, dreams, memory, folktales, and family lore. In his hands, Duniya's tale becomes emblematic of the struggles of an entire people.    Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49545959899409,"sku":"GOR011458375","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49898778689809,"sku":"CIN1628725826G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51041141162257,"sku":"NIN9781628725827","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51505456283921,"sku":"GOR009475829","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1628725826.jpg?v=1751024633"},{"product_id":"hiding-in-plain-sight-book-nuruddin-farah-9781780747996","title":"Hiding in Plain Sight","description":"From 'the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years' (New York Review of Books) comes a novel set in Somalia and Kenya about family, freedom and loyalty    When Bella, an internationally known fashion  photographer, dazzling and aloof, is forced to return to Nairobi to care for her teenage niece and nephew,  she feels an unfamiliar surge of protectiveness and  responsibility. But when their mother unexpectedly  resurfaces, reasserting her maternal rights and  bringing with her a gale of chaos and confusion that  mirrors the deepening political instability in the region, Bella must decide whether she can –  or must – come to their rescue.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49556396867857,"sku":"GOR006720084","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640377876753,"sku":"GOR007806274","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49649389306129,"sku":"GOR013644983","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52659208421649,"sku":"NLS9781780747996","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1780747993.jpg?v=1751121832"},{"product_id":"hiding-in-plain-sight-book-nuruddin-farah-9781594633362","title":"Hiding in Plain Sight","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557923889425,"sku":"GOR007678374","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777566187793,"sku":"CIN1594633363G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333593792785,"sku":"CIN1594633363VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594633363.jpg?v=1751119294"},{"product_id":"crossbones-book-nuruddin-farah-9781847086105","title":"Crossbones","description":"A  dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved    Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law,    Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil.    What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however,    but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing    whips.    Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in   Puntland,  the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching  for  his  stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis,  apparently   recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious  insurgency.   The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and  deeper into the   fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace  themselves for an  Ethiopian  invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a  few hours before  the borders  are breached and raids descend from land  and sea. As the  uneasy quiet  shatters and the city turns into a  battle zone, the  brothers experience  firsthand the derailments of war.    Crossbones   is a fascinating look at individuals caught  in the maw of zealotry,   profiteering and political conflict, by one  of Africa's most highly acclaimed international writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49576501575953,"sku":"GOR004893572","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49615097921809,"sku":"GOR008536882","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847086101.jpg?v=1759230805"},{"product_id":"crossbones-book-nuruddin-farah-9781594488160","title":"Crossbones","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578395533585,"sku":"GOR006821710","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333821989137,"sku":"CIN1594488169A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816431350033,"sku":"CIN1594488169VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816781345041,"sku":"CIN1594488169G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594488169.jpg?v=1751454859"},{"product_id":"sweet-and-sour-milk-book-nuruddin-farah-9781555971595","title":"Sweet and Sour Milk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed \u003ci\u003eVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eSweet and Sour Milk\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as \"Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own\" (Chinua Achebe).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49589503688977,"sku":"GOR007281896","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49666162917649,"sku":"GOR004363603","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49985937309969,"sku":"CIN1555971598G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50139293450513,"sku":"CIN1555971598A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51684637737233,"sku":"CIN1555971598VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555971598.jpg?v=1751119116"},{"product_id":"maps-book-nuruddin-farah-9780330287104","title":"Maps","description":"\u003cb\u003eNuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.--Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. \u003ci\u003eMaps\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn dangerous and turbulent Mogadiscio, Somalis are struggling to recreate a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of modernity and the betrayals of civil war. Askar throws himself into radical political activity in the midst of the turmoil. As allegations of murder and treason are leveled at Misra, Askar's personal sense identity and Somalia's political boundaries will be challenged with a ferocity he could have never imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595820802321,"sku":"GOR002993982","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51746003222801,"sku":"GOR001120172","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330287109.jpg?v=1750877042"},{"product_id":"knots-book-nuruddin-farah-9780143112983","title":"Knots","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eNorth of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e comes \"a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Called \"one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with \u003ci\u003eKnots\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eKnots\u003c\/i\u003e is another Farah masterwork.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599791628561,"sku":"GOR004364761","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50162964037905,"sku":"CIN0143112988G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345627320593,"sku":"CIN0143112988A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999476388113,"sku":"NIN9780143112983","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143112988.jpg?v=1751420723"},{"product_id":"links-book-nuruddin-farah-9781573222655","title":"Links","description":"\u003cb\u003eGripping, provocative, and revelatory, \u003ci\u003eLinks\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeebleh 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49638207357201,"sku":"GOR013604285","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50324749386001,"sku":"CIN1573222658G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50407823999249,"sku":"GOR003648634","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50958529429777,"sku":"GOR006186706","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1573222658.jpg?v=1751419743"},{"product_id":"sardines-book-nuruddin-farah-9780850314083","title":"Sardines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarah's landmark \u003ci\u003eVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is comprised by the novels \u003ci\u003eSweet and Sour Milk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSardines\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eClose Sesame\u003c\/i\u003e. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSardines\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly combines a social commentary on life under a dictatorship with a compassionate exploration of African feminist issues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49649570414865,"sku":"GOR005722505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50494303207697,"sku":"GOR007856838","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0850314089.jpg?v=1751396645"},{"product_id":"knots-book-nuruddin-farah-9781594489242","title":"Knots","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new novel from one of the world's great writers--an extraordinary work set in Mogadiscio, Somalia--that both breaks new ground and brings him back to his literary roots. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strong, self-reliant woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America, Cambara returns to Mogadiscio to escape a failed marriage and an overweening mother. Her journey back to her native home is a desperate attempt to find herself on her own terms-however ironically, in a country where women are expected to wear veils. And she has given herself a mission to reclaim her family's home from the warlord who has taken it as his own. Cambara finds emotional refuge and practical support with a group of Somali women activists working to broker peace in a country that has been savagely riven by its drug-addled, power-hungry men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Farah's novels have been famous for their unique African feminism since his debut, \u003ci\u003eFrom a Crooked Rib\u003c\/i\u003e (just reissued by Penguin); \u003ci\u003eKnots\u003c\/i\u003e represents his most powerful return to that legacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnots\u003c\/i\u003e also presents a penetrating portrayal of Somalia's capital city-a city that's changed from the city Westerners saw on CN and in \u003ci\u003eBlack Hawk Down, \u003c\/i\u003e transformed into a state of violent anarchy and psychological disrepair that has never been more important to understand. An especially intimate portrait of Mogadiscio, it's informed by Farah's own recent efforts to reclaim his family's property there, as well as his experiences trying to negotiate peace among the city's warlords.Now more than ever, Farah's deeply wise and worldly inside look at the Muslim world is valuable and necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49668240769297,"sku":"GOR013767570","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394132742417,"sku":"CIN1594489246G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334182928657,"sku":"CIN1594489246VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594489246.jpg?v=1750895286"},{"product_id":"maps-book-nuruddin-farah-9781628725858","title":"Maps","description":"“Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.”—Nadine Gordimer    Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital.   In dangerous and turbulent Mogadiscio, Somalis are struggling to recreate a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of modernity and the betrayals of civil war. Askar throws himself into radical political activity in the midst of the turmoil. As allegations of murder and treason are leveled at Misra, Askar's personal sense identity and Somalia's political boundaries will be challenged with a ferocity he could have never imagined.   Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777781604625,"sku":"CIN1628725850G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49895940522257,"sku":"GOR008404025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50000716595473,"sku":"CIN1628725850A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50877808214289,"sku":"GOR012732829","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50964102775057,"sku":"GOR014150172","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040760430865,"sku":"NIN9781628725858","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51747179233553,"sku":"CIN1628725850VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1628725850.jpg?v=1751151829"},{"product_id":"sardines-book-nuruddin-farah-9781555971618","title":"Sardines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFarah's landmark\u003ci\u003eVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is comprised by the novels\u003ci\u003eSweet and Sour Milk\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003eSardines\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003eClose Sesame\u003c\/i\u003e. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSardines\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly combines a social commentary on life under a dictatorship with a compassionate exploration of African feminist issues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49889444823313,"sku":"GOR009265357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50381605765393,"sku":"CIN155597161XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52789023015185,"sku":"GOR004187108","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/155597161X.jpg?v=1750760881"},{"product_id":"close-sesame-book-nuruddin-farah-9781555971625","title":"Close Sesame","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarah's landmark \u003ci\u003eVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is comprised by the novels \u003ci\u003eSweet and Sour Milk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSardines\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eClose Sesame.\u003c\/i\u003e In this volume, the third and final book in the series, the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. An old man finds himself poised in mortal combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in an atmosphere where the distinction between public and private justice is always obscured.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClose Sesame\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that offers \"an eloquent indictment of the tyrannies committed both under Islamic law and in the name of Socialism\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49937578590481,"sku":"CIN1555971628G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037085827345,"sku":"NIN9781555971625","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52778442162449,"sku":"GOR014618462","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53065827713297,"sku":"CIN1555971628VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555971628.jpg?v=1751341509"},{"product_id":"secrets-book-nuruddin-farah-9781559704274","title":"Secrets","description":"Africa's culture and ideology are illuminated in a novel set against the background of Somalia's civil war.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49987409576209,"sku":"GOR009940526","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50325983789329,"sku":"GOR009752247","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50382504263953,"sku":"CIN1559704276G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50726752682257,"sku":"GOR014050247","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52819596345617,"sku":"CIN1559704276VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1559704276.jpg?v=1751213394"},{"product_id":"secrets-book-nuruddin-farah-9781628725872","title":"Secrets","description":"“With Secrets, Nuruddin Farah solidifies his reputation as one of the world’s great writers.”—Ishmael Reed   Set against the backdrop of the civil war in Somalia, this stunningly ambitious novel was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Fiction of the Year Selection. In Mogadiscio, the dictator is preparing to flee and clans are moving into the city, which rattles with machine gun fire. Society is collapsing under the weight of its own perversities. Unexpectedly, Kalaman, a businessman who owns a computer store, receives a visit from his childhood crush, who has returned from America to take him up on an old pledge—and have his child. The arrival of his house guest pulls Kalaman back into a past he thought he had escaped, rife with doubts and secrets that go deep into his heritage.   In a dazzling display of storytelling genius, Nuruddin Farah weaves together myth and magic, shape shifters and tribal wisdom, frank sexuality and lyrical prose as Kalaman revisits his own coming of age story and finds the heartbreaking tale of his famliy’s lost innocence amid the ravages of authoritarianism. With Secrets, the culmination of his Blood in the Sun trilogy, Farah draws readers through the rifts that have torn across Somali society and into the culture and mindset of his troubled country.   Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50072849121553,"sku":"CIN1628725877VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51348999930129,"sku":"NGR9781628725872","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51764985626897,"sku":"CIN1628725877G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53058613412113,"sku":"NIN9781628725872","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1628725877.jpg?v=1751057532"},{"product_id":"links-book-nuruddin-farah-9780143034841","title":"Links","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eNorth of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLinks\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50129428611345,"sku":"CIN0143034847G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50328916361489,"sku":"CIN0143034847A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999469342993,"sku":"NIN9780143034841","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53022015357201,"sku":"GOR002950541","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53156561355025,"sku":"CIN0143034847VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B000GG4H6G.jpg?v=1750973295"},{"product_id":"crossbones-book-nuruddin-farah-9781847086099","title":"Crossbones","description":"A  dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved  Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law,  Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil.  What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however,  but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing  whips. Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland,  the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his  stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently  recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency.  The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the  fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian  invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders  are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet  shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience  firsthand the derailments of war. Crossbones  is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry,  profiteering and political conflict, by one of Africa's most highly  acclaimed international writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50144769114385,"sku":"GOR004537568","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50981474173201,"sku":"GOR005623415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847086098.jpg?v=1772275321"},{"product_id":"maps-book-nuruddin-farah-9780140296433","title":"Maps","description":"\u003cb\u003eNuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.--Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. \u003ci\u003eMaps\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn dangerous and turbulent Mogadiscio, Somalis are struggling to recreate a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of modernity and the betrayals of civil war. Askar throws himself into radical political activity in the midst of the turmoil. As allegations of murder and treason are leveled at Misra, Askar's personal sense identity and Somalia's political boundaries will be challenged with a ferocity he could have never imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50172543172881,"sku":"CIN0140296433G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50240415334673,"sku":"CIN0140296433VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50810440843537,"sku":"GOR003225454","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51381338407185,"sku":"GOR007282670","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52819719291153,"sku":"CIN0140296433A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140296433.jpg?v=1751004766"},{"product_id":"from-a-crooked-rib-book-nuruddin-farah-9780143037262","title":"From a Crooked Rib","description":"Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are sold like cattle.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50207322636561,"sku":"CIN0143037269G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999444373777,"sku":"NIN9780143037262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51764885160209,"sku":"CIN0143037269VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51879114277137,"sku":"GOR006304247","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53243578646801,"sku":"CIN0143037269A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143037269.jpg?v=1751069436"},{"product_id":"north-of-dawn-book-nuruddin-farah-9780735214231","title":"North of Dawn","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50213681529105,"sku":"GOR009562839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50305705083153,"sku":"CIN0735214239VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50357515452689,"sku":"CIN0735214239G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0735214239.jpg?v=1751105869"},{"product_id":"close-sesame-book-nuruddin-farah-9780850314755","title":"Close Sesame","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50277082693905,"sku":"GOR013909318","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0850314755.jpg?v=1750819257"},{"product_id":"crossbones-book-nuruddin-farah-9780143122531","title":"Crossbones","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping new novel from today's \"most important African novelist\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), the internationally acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eNorth of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompleting the trilogy that began with \u003ci\u003eLinks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKnots\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrossbones\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50325427355921,"sku":"CIN0143122533VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50492056371473,"sku":"CIN0143122533G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999479370001,"sku":"NIN9780143122531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143122533.jpg?v=1751258740"},{"product_id":"maps-book-nuruddin-farah-9780394563251","title":"Maps","description":"\u003cb\u003eNuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.--Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. \u003ci\u003eMaps\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn dangerous and turbulent Mogadiscio, Somalis are struggling to recreate a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of modernity and the betrayals of civil war. Askar throws himself into radical political activity in the midst of the turmoil. As allegations of murder and treason are leveled at Misra, Askar's personal sense identity and Somalia's political boundaries will be challenged with a ferocity he could have never imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50354121572625,"sku":"CIN0394563255G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394563255.jpg?v=1750740286"},{"product_id":"hiding-in-plain-sight-book-nuruddin-farah-9781594634109","title":"Hiding in Plain Sight","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bold new novel that \"augments a body of work worthy of a Nobel Prize\" (Kirkus Reviews), from the internationally acclaimed author of Crossbones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Nuruddin Farah-\"the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years\" (The New York Review of Books)-returns with a provocative, unforgettable tale about family, freedom, and loyalty. A departure in theme and setting, Hiding in Plain Sight is a profound exploration of the tensions between liberty and obligation, the ways in which gender and sexual orientation define us, and the unintended consequences of the secrets we keep.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Bella, a fashion photographer living in Rome, learns of her beloved half-brother's murder, she travels to Nairobi to care for her niece and nephew. But when their mother resurfaces, reasserting her maternal rights and bringing with her a gale of chaos and confusion that mirrors the deepening political instability in the region, Bella must decide how far she will go to obey the call of sisterly responsibility.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50384824271121,"sku":"CIN1594634106G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038070276369,"sku":"NIN9781594634109","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594634106.jpg?v=1751214379"},{"product_id":"from-a-crooked-rib-book-nuruddin-farah-9780141187174","title":"From a Crooked Rib","description":"'God created woman from a crooked rib and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it' Somali Traditional Proverb FROM A CROOKED RIB is a beautiful, sparse, subtle account of the experience of a girl named Ebla, who runs away from her rural family, settles in Mogadishu, the capital, and marries an educated man with unhappy results. Told with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, the story is a moving celebration of the human spirit and challenge to traditional male chauvinism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50480200581393,"sku":"GOR001579124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53555784974609,"sku":"GOR003943809","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141187174.jpg?v=1751442777"},{"product_id":"yesterday-tomorrow-book-nuruddin-farah-9780304707027","title":"Yesterday, Tomorrow","description":"The story of the international refugees created by the political tyranny of post-colonial Somalia. The author, an established Somali novelist who went into exile as a form of protest, has interviewed Somalis in Africa and Europe to provide this portrait of how people react, are wounded, how they survive, change and even thrive when they flee their homes and are turned into refugees. It shows how the refugees see themselves and how the host countries treat refugees. It reveals how refugees have adapted, or failed to adapt, to different countries and how their lives became disrupted and recreated as a result of politics and economics. Although it focuses on a particular people, the work should help readers to understand the experiences of people forced by mass migrations to live fragmented lives in the post-modern era of rapid change.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50510159511825,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50510160003345,"sku":"GOR006504301","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0304707023.jpg?v=1751356588"},{"product_id":"sweet-and-sour-milk-book-nuruddin-farah-9780435902261","title":"Sweet and Sour Milk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed \u003ci\u003eVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eSweet and Sour Milk\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own (Chinua Achebe).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50514617893137,"sku":"GOR009018504","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51254617211153,"sku":"GOR009081183","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0435902261.jpg?v=1750878618"},{"product_id":"gifts-book-nuruddin-farah-9780140296426","title":"Gifts","description":"Gifts is a beguiling tale of a Somali family, its strong matriarch, Duniya, and its past wounds that refuse to heal. As the story unfolds, Somalia is ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine, prompting industrialized nations to offer monetary aid gifts to the so-called Third World. Farah weaves these threads together into a tapestry of dreams, memories, family lore, folktales, and journalistic accounts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50520273158417,"sku":"CIN0140296425G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50799280455953,"sku":"GOR001922988","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423048958225,"sku":"CIN0140296425VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51438373372177,"sku":"GOR004605106","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53146905444625,"sku":"GOR007221156","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140296425.jpg?v=1750694087"},{"product_id":"maps-book-nuruddin-farah-9781559704854","title":"Maps","description":"\u003cb\u003eNuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.--Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. \u003ci\u003eMaps\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn dangerous and turbulent Mogadiscio, Somalis are struggling to recreate a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of modernity and the betrayals of civil war. Askar throws himself into radical political activity in the midst of the turmoil. As allegations of murder and treason are leveled at Misra, Askar's personal sense identity and Somalia's political boundaries will be challenged with a ferocity he could have never imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51717676564753,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51717678006545,"sku":"CIN1559704853G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51804314009873,"sku":"CIN1559704853VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1559704853.jpg?v=1751341285"},{"product_id":"from-a-crooked-rib-book-nuruddin-farah-9780435900809","title":"From a Crooked Rib","description":"Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are sold like cattle.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51764955676945,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51764955840785,"sku":"GOR006230512","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53148448129297,"sku":"GOR002485057","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780435900809.jpg?v=1751372222"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/autor-buecher-von-nuruddin-farah.oembed?page=2","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}