Maps
Nuruddin Farah
An orphan of the Ogaden war cannot fix the borders of himself.
Set against the 1977 Ogaden war, it follows Askar, a Somali orphan raised by Misra, a woman of ambiguous ethnicity, as questions of identity, territory and belonging blur. Farah's shifting first, second and third person narration made the psychology of nationhood its true subject. The opening novel of his Blood in the Sun trilogy, it confirmed him as the Horn of Africa's foremost novelist and a searching critic of Somali statehood.
- Author
- Nuruddin Farah
- First published
- 1986
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- East, Southern and North African Literature
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