Maps, 1 - (The Blood in the Sun Trilogy) by Nuruddin Farah (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events."--Nadine Gordimer</b> <p/>Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. <i>Maps</i> is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital. <p/>In dangerous and turbulent Mogadiscio, Somalis are struggling to recreate a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of modernity and the betrayals of civil war. Askar throws himself into radical political activity in the midst of the turmoil. As allegations of murder and treason are leveled at Misra, Askar's personal sense identity and Somalia's political boundaries will be challenged with a ferocity he could have never imagined. <p/>Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Startling . . . passionate. Farah's masterpiece. --<i>The New York Times</i> Book Review <p/>"Nuruddin Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own. . . . He excels in giving voice to tragedy in remote places of the world that speak directly and familiarly to our own hearts."--Chinua Achebe <p/>"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events."--Nadine Gordimer <p/>"Nuruddin Farah is a major writer, one of Africa's best."--Robert Coover<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nuruddin Farah</b> was born in 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia. He is the author of numerous novels, novellas, short stories, and plays. His novels include <i>Hiding in Plain Sight</i>, <i>Crossbones</i>, and his trilogies <i>Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship</i> and <i>Blood in the Sun</i>, which comprises <i>Maps</i> and <i>Gifts</i> as well as <i>Secrets</i>. After the publication of <i>Sweet and Sour Milk</i> in 1979, Farah became persona non grata in Somalia and served a self-imposed exile of more than twenty years, before he was permitted to visit in 1996. His novels have been translated into many languages and have won numerous international awards. Farah was named the 1998 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He now divides his time between Cape Town, South Africa and Annandale, New York.
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