Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-
New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
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Notes:

• Reprinted by arrangement with Arcade Publishing Inc. –T.p. verso.
• A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.

Subjects:

• Orphans — Somalia — Fiction.
• Young men — Somalia — Fiction.
• Identity (Psychology) — Fiction.
• Somalia — Politics and government — Fiction.
• Bildungsromans. gsafd

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