Somalia. Brings to mind: famine, religious fanatics, suffering population, pirates, war lords, hunger, Black Hawk down, failed state, civil war, international failure, annoyance, human intolerance, narrow-mindedness...
And then I suddenly came upon Crossbones... the last book in the trilogy Past Imperfect by the Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. Links and Knots are the first and second volumes of this trilogy.
Mr Farah left Somalia in 1976 and now lives in South Africa and the US. I have only read this last volume where the need for survival overrides all social considerations, as nothing is what it seems, or what, we readers in a more organised society are used to... and I cannot wait for Amazon to deliver the other two.
I recommend, enjoy.
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