Links (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nuruddin Farah
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early twenty-first century
- Setting: Mogadishu, Somalia
- Principal Characters: Jeebleh, Bile, Caloosha, Seamus, Raasta, Shanta, Faahiye, Af-Laawe
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, Twenty-first century, Hope, War, Muslims, Hell, Miracles, Refugees
- Locales: Mogadishu, Somalia
Nuruddin Farah's eight novels record the turbulent history of Somalia after it gained independence in 1960. Farah, however, has not lived in his native land since 1976—the year that his second novel, A Naked Needle, appeared in Europe. Traveling abroad at the time of the book's publication, Farah intended to return to his native country to resume his teaching duties at the university in Mogadishu. He called his brothers to give them details of his flight arrival, but they warned him not to return. At that time, the Marxist dictator Siad Barre ruled the country with an iron hand...
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