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Also by Nuruddin Farah:

North of Dawn, December 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Hiding In Plain Sight, November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Crossbones, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Knots, February 2007
Hardcover
Sweet and Sour Milk, August 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
Links, April 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
Secrets, June 2001
Hardcover
Gifts, November 2000
Trade Size
Maps, November 2000
Trade Size (reprint)

MAPS
By: Nuruddin Farah

Penguin
November 2000
On Sale: October 31, 2000
288 pages
ISBN: 0140296433
EAN: 9780140296433
Trade Size (reprint)
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Fiction | Suspense

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 Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.

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