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Maps Nuruddin Farah publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1986
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summary: 'Blood in the Sun' Trilogy, part I Adopted as an orphaned infant, Askar grows weary of his village life and becomes involved in the political upheaval in Mogadiscio, Somalia. |
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| ON NURUDDIN FARAH'S BOOKSHELF Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe, 1958 The Wise Wound Penelope Shuttle / Peter Redgrove, 1978 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens, 1860-1861 Nuruddin Farah's mother as herself, 'I emulated my mother, an oral poet, who exercised a towering influence on me during my pliant teens when I displayed my initial interest in writing.[...] Everything I've written is a tribute to the strength and wisdom with which my mother inspired me during my young years.' - Nuruddin Farah The Epic in Africa Isidore Okpewho, 1978 Reference work by a leading expert in the field of oral tradition. The author argues 'from a literary perspective for the existence of epic in Africa.' Farah cites this book as one of his most important sources for Maps. The Double Otto Rank, 1925 (written in 1914) A study of the Doppelganger theme as it appears in European and American literature. In Maps, Uncle Hilaal and Askar refer to author Otto Rank as one of their 'gurus'. Light in August William Faulkner, 1932 | BOOKS BY NURUDDIN FARAH: Maps 1986 'Blood in the Sun' Trilogy, part I Adopted as an orphaned infant, Askar grows weary of his village life and becomes involved in the political upheaval in Mogadiscio, Somalia. | WHAT TO READ AFTER MAPS? (CLASSIC) EAST AFRICAN NOVELS Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih, 1966 A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1967 Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah, 1994 Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa, 2000 Notes from the Hyena's Belly Nega Mezlekia, 2000 BLOOD-RED Macbeth William Shakespeare, 1606 Crime and Punishment Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, 1866 The Color Purple Alice Walker, 1982 Dracula Bram Stoker, 1897 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy, 1992 COMING OF AGE IN AFRICA The Famished Road Ben Okri, 1991 Sozaboy: a novel in rotten English Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1985 Allah is Not Obliged Ahmadou Kourouma, 2000 Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver, 1998 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1989 MOTHERS AND SONS A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole, 1980 Call it Sleep Henry Roth, 1934 Helping Verbs of the Heart Péter Esterházy, 1985 [Nocni prace] Jáchym Topol, 2001 Mothers and Sons Colm Tóibín, 2006 Dreams from My Father Barack Obama, 1995 ORPHANS Oliver Twist Charles Dickens, 1837-1838 'Harry Potter' novels J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007 |
| Secrets 1998 'Blood in the Sun' Trilogy, part III | ||
| Gifts 1991 'Blood in the Sun' Trilogy, part II | ||
| Sardines 1981 | ||
| Sweet and Sour Milk 1979 | ||
| Close Sesame 1983 | ||
| From a Crooked Rib 1970 Farah's first novel is an empathetic portrait of a Somali woman struggling with the restraints of traditional Somali society. | ||
| A Naked Needle 1976 A Mogadishu teacher’s search for self-fulfillment and freedom within the political and social upheaval of contemporary Somalia. | ||
| Knots 2007 part II of Farah's latest trilogy A woman returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. | ||
| Links 2003 part I of Farah's latest trilogy An exiled Somali dissident returns to Mogadishu after more than twenty years to search for his mother's grave and settle old scores. | ||
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