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Secrets (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Nuruddin Farah once remarked that he wrote to keep his homeland of Somalia alive. He has worked alone in this project, because he is the only novelist in English from the East African nation, which was formed in 1960 out of British and Italian colonies. Beginning with his first novel, From a Crooked Rib (1970), Farah has examined Somalia from a wide range of perspectives, including the country’s traditional, political, social, historical, and mythological mix. After the publication of his second novel, A Naked Needle, in 1976, Farah went into exile when the nation’s...

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