Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-
New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.
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Notes:
- Returning to her native home in Somalia after being raised in North America and suffering a failed marriage, self-reliant Cambara struggles to reclaim her family’s home from a warlord and finds support from a group of women activists.
- A strong, modern woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America, Cambara returns to Mogadiscio to escape a failed marriage and an overweening mother. Her journey back to her native home is a desperate attempt to find herself on her own terms – however ironically, in a country where women must veil their faces. And she has given herself a mission: to reclaim her family’s home from the warlord who has taken it as his own. She has arrived laden with impossibly heavy suitcases that contain everything she wanted to bring from her past life into this new one. Cambara finds emotional refuge and practical support with a group of Somali women activists working to broker peace in a country that has been savagely riven by its drug-addled, power-hungry men. As she begins to build a sense of comfort and intimacy in this most dangerous of cities, some of her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. –BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
- Americans — Somalia — Fiction.
- Mogadishu (Somalia) — Fiction.
- Real property — Somalia — Fiction.
- Americans. fast (OCoLC)fst00807488
- Real property. fast (OCoLC)fst01091096
- Somalia. fast (OCoLC)fst01205351
- Somalia — Mogadishu. fast (OCoLC)fst01206065
- Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787
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