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This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a man named... read more
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You sit, in contemplative posture, your features agonized and your expressions pained; you sit for hours and hours and hours, sleepless, looking into darkness, hearing a small snore coming from the room next to yours.
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- Nuruddin Farah (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: NY Pantheon
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0394563255
Page Count: 246
Publisher: NY Pantheon
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0394563255
Page Count: 246
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- Dewey: 823.914
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