"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in
our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events."
Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for
Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected
contemporary writers. Maps 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. 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.
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