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Published for the first time in the U. S.—internationally celebrated writer Nuruddin Farah's first novel Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Nuruddin Farah
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Heinemann, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101097649
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