| Edition |
First American Edition. |
| Description |
336 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"A novel"--Jacket. |
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Originally published: Great Britain : Simon & Schuster UK, 2013. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-336). |
| Summary |
1987. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. Filsan, a young female soldier who has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north. As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together. -- From book jacket. |
| Awards |
Somerset Maugham Prize, 2014 |
| Subject |
Women, Somali -- Fiction.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) (OCoLC)fst01156439
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Women, Somali. (OCoLC)fst01739540
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| Genre/Form |
War stories.
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War stories.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| ISBN |
0374209146 (hardback) |
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9780374209148 (hardback) |
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9780374709921 (ebook) |
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