by Nuruddin Farah
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Published Feb 2007
432 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction
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A strong, self-reliant 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 are expected to wear veils. And she has given herself a mission to reclaim her family's home from the warlord who has taken it as his own.
Starred Review. Spellbinding...a heroine whose power and depth of personality almost overwhelms the book written to contain her" - PW.
"Stylistically, Farah's writing can be a challenge--his prose (written in English, not his native language) tends to be stilted and repetitious--but he has been touted for the Nobel Prize, and this trilogy may mark a turn in the future of Somalia." - Booklist.
"[An] ambitious, accusatory novel....Farah knows his troubled homeland intimately, and everything he writes commands respectful attention." - Kirkus.
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Knots is the second volume in Farah's trilogy that began with Links (2004).
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