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Adua (Paperback)
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Adua (Paperback)
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List price R272
Loot Price R222
Discovery Miles 2 220
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Once a young girl in Somalia who wanted to be in films and escape
the domineering grasp of her father, Adua is now an "Old Lira," a
woman who immigrated to Italy during the first wave in the 1970's.
With the end of the Somalian civil war, Adua begins to seriously
consider returning to the country of her birth. Sitting at the foot
of the elephant statue that holds up the obelisk in Santa Maria
square in Rome, she recounts her story, attempting to make sense of
the past forty years and what the future might hold. When she first
arrived in Rome and her film dreams ended in failure and shame, she
knew she could not return to totalitarian Somalia and the vice-like
purview of her father. Once a translator for the Italian colonial
regime, her father's past in Italy and the rest of his life in
Somalia were characterized by attempts to live fully under the
punishing hand of regimes, while Adua was left to reckon with the
after-effects of his choices. Adua is the unforgettable story of a
father and daughter grappling with the implications of colonialism,
immigration and racism that have bisected both of their lives.
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