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Riverhead Books
December 2018
On Sale: December 4, 2018
384 pages
ISBN: 0735214239
EAN: 9780735214231
Kindle: B07BD2QHMT
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Fiction Family Life | Literature and Fiction Literary
A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably
transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and
children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated
novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where
they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised
two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is
driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia,
where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple
reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in
Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply
in religion, while her children hunger for the freedoms of
their new homeland, a rift that will have lifealtering
consequences for the entire family. Set against the backdrop of real events, North of
Dawn is a provocative, devastating story of love,
loyalty, and national identity that asks whether it is ever
possible to escape a legacy of violence--and if so, at what
cost.
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