Nuruddin Farah Boeken

Somalië aan de vooravond van de burgeroorlog. Terwijl in de hoofdstad Mogadishu het geluid van machinegeweren weerklinkt, krijgt Kalaman bezoek van zijn jeugdliefde Sholoongo, van wie wordt beweerd dat ze magische krachten bezit. Ze is gekomen om Kalaman om een gunst te vragen die te maken heeft met een eed uit hun jeugd. Door Sholoongo’s bezoek beleeft Kalaman zijn verleden opnieuw. Hij wordt meegesleept in een maalstroom van herinneringen, geheimen en mythes waarvan hij dacht dat hij ze allang achter zich had gelaten. Terwijl Kalaman steeds meer te weten komt over de vreselijke geheimen van zijn familie, wordt hij geconfronteerd met de waarheid over zijn eigen afkomst.

In the final installment of the trilogy, characters navigate the oppressive reality of a police state, where the lines between public and private justice blur. An elderly man faces a formidable and elusive adversary, highlighting themes of survival and resistance in a nightmarish setting. The narrative explores the complexities of power and the human spirit under duress, culminating in a gripping confrontation that reflects the broader struggles within the society depicted throughout the series.

A gripping novel about zealotry, pirates and Somalia in crisis

This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.

Returning to her native home in Somalia after being raised in North America and suffering a failed marriage, self-reliant Cambara struggles to reclaim her family's home from a warlord and finds support from a group of women activist. By the award-winning author of Links.

A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children hunger for the freedoms of their new homeland, a rift that will have lifealtering consequences for the entire family. Set against the backdrop of real events, North of Dawn is a provocative, devastating story of love, loyalty, and national identity that asks whether it is ever possible to escape a legacy of violence—and if so, at what cost.

Jeebleh is returning to Mogadishu from New York for the first time in 20 years. It is not a nostalgia trip for him - Jeeblah's last residence here was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? The US troops have come and gone, the decimated city is ruled by warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs.

"Adopting her niece and nephew when her half-brother is murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia, half-Somali photographer Bella disciplines her free-spirited nature and reevaluates her options when the children's mother resurfaces."-- Provided by publisher.

From an acclaimed African writer, a novel about family, freedom, and loyalty. When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Mogadiscio, she’s in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali mother, from whom Bella’s inherited her freewheeling ways. An internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling but aloof, she comes and goes as she pleases, juggling three lovers. But with her teenage niece and nephew effectively orphaned – their mother abandoned them years ago—she feels an unfamiliar surge of protective feeling. Putting her life on hold, she journeys to Nairobi, where the two are in boarding school, uncertain whether she can—or must—come to their rescue. When their mother resurfaces, reasserting her maternal rights and bringing with her a gale of chaos and confusion that mirror the deepening political instability in the region, Bella has to decide how far she will go to obey the call of sisterly responsibility. A new departure in theme and setting for “the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years” (The New York Review of Books) Hiding in Plain Sight, is a profound exploration of the tensions between freedom and obligation, the ways gender and sexual preference define us, and the unexpected paths by which the political disrupts the personal.

Cambara, eine willensstarke Frau, beschließt, aus ihrer Wahlheimat Toronto in ihr Geburtsland Somalia zurückzukehren. Ihr geliebter Sohn ist durch die Unachtsamkeit ihres Mannes ums Leben gekommen, doch die Reise ist nicht nur eine Flucht: Cambara will das alte Anwesen ihrer Familie den Händen eines Warlords entreißen. Das Mogadischu, in das sie kommt, ist schwer gezeichnet vom Bürgerkrieg: Jugendliche mit automatischen Waffen patrouillieren die Straßen, Clan-Rivalitäten, Langeweile und das allgegenwärtige Kaat haben die einstmals lebendige Stadt im Griff, islamistische Gruppen nutzen die Lähmung, um Einfluß zu gewinnen. Doch nach und nach gelingt es Cambara, Verbündete zu gewinnen – Heldinnen der Vernunft in einer Welt der Zerstörung. Netze ist ein bestürzendes und zugleich hoffnungsvolles Buch mit einer unvergeßlichen Hauptfigur, deren persönliche Reise in die Vergangenheit ein Zeichen für eine bessere Zukunft setzt. Ein Roman über die Realitäten hinter dem Schlagwort vom »Zerfallenen Staat«.