ISBN:
1573222658
Language:
English
Pages:
336 S
,
24 cm
DDC:
823.914
Keywords:
Americans Fiction
;
Political refugees Fiction
;
Somali Americans Fiction
;
Mothers Fiction Death
;
Abduction Fiction
;
Girls Fiction
;
Americans Somali
;
Fiction
;
Political refugees Fiction
;
Somali Americans Fiction
;
Mothers Death
;
Fiction
;
Abduction Fiction
;
Mogadishu (Somalia) Fiction
;
Mogadishu (Somalia) Fiction
;
Psychological fiction
;
Suspense fiction
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
Mogadischu
;
Politischer Flüchtling
;
Bürgerkrieg in Somalia
;
Mogadischu
;
Bürgerkrieg in Somalia
Abstract:
Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip—his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother’s grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend’s family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0720/2003065969-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0720/2003065969-d.html
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