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Aseer Alkotb Novel: Men Ddalae Aawag
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- Category: a novel
- Author: Noureddine Farah
- number of pages: 224
About the book:
“God created the woman from a crooked rib, and no one tried to straighten it except to break it.” Eighteen-year-old Ebla flees her Bedouin camp in the Somali desert when she discovers that her grandfather has arranged a marriage for her with a man who is dozens of years her senior. After fleeing to a nearby city, Ebla tries to navigate her way through enormous obstacles, which turn out to be a greater and more threatening threat, as she is a woman. While searching alone for a strong fortress, she meets a group of strangers who turn her into a maid or a sex object. As she is pushed from one state of infirmity to the next, she must struggle for an identity in a world where "women are sold like cattle".
Written with complete condemnation from a woman's point of view, Noureddin Farah's first shocking novel attacks the traditional values of his people, and is also seen as a celebration of the unbreakable human spirit.
The author of "Links" and the "Blood in the Sun" trilogy, winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, "Nour El-Din Farah, the most important African novelist to appear during the past twenty-five years, is also considered one of the most cultured writers in modern fiction literature." (The New York Times). Noureddine Farah is one of the best contemporary African novelists. (Salman Rushdie
About the author:
The writer, described by Salman Rushdie as "one of the best contemporary African novelists", won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for the year 1998 (the second most important literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize). He was born in (1945) in Baidoa, in what is now Somalia, and grew up in Clavu under Ethiopian rule. The ethnic and linguistic mix of the region in which he spent his childhood contributed to his early fondness for literature. He worked in the Ministry of Education in Somalia before moving to India to study philosophy and literature. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970, and was a huge hit and gained international acclaim for its portrayal of a woman resisting the constraints of Somali society, followed in 1976 by Naked Needle. Then "Sweet and Sour Laban" (1979), "Sardine" (1981), "Close Sesame" (1983), and they made up his first trilogy "Variations in an African Dictatorship". After the publication of his novel "Sweet and Sour Milk", he became persona non grata in his native Somalia. In exile he began what became a lifelong literary project. After the publication of the "Variations" trilogy, the "Blood in the Sun" trilogy was released, and his novel "North of Dawn", which was published in (2018), is his latest novel. Noureddine lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife and two children.
Product Code: 9789778587869
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