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GIFTS
By: Nuruddin Farah

Penguin
November 2000
On Sale: November 1, 2000
256 pages
ISBN: 0140296425
EAN: 9780140296426
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Fiction

Gifts is a beguiling tale of a Somali family, its strong matriarch, Duniya, and its past wounds that refuse to heal. As the story unfolds, Somalia is ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine, prompting industrialized nations to offer monetary aid—"gifts" to the so-called Third World. Farah weaves these threads together into a tapestry of dreams, memories, family lore, folktales, and journalistic accounts.

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