Published for the first time in the U. S.ainternationally
celebrated writer Nuruddin Farahas first novel
Written with complete conviction from a womanas point of view,
Nuruddin Farahas spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the
traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration
of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs
away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she
discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an
older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds
herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the
bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and
violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where
women are asold like cattle.a BACKCOVER: aNuruddin Farah, the most
important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years,
is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern
fiction.a
a"The New York Review of Books"
aItas easy to see why Nuruddin Farahas name keeps coming up as a
likely recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature.a
a"Newsweek"
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