Tato série se noří do složitosti identity a návratu domů, zkoumá střet kultur a osobní proměnu. Příběhy sledují postavy, které se potýkají se svou minulostí a hledají své místo ve světě poznamenaném konflikty a změnami. Nabízí hluboký vhled do lidské odolnosti a hledání smyslu tváří v tvář nepřízni osudu. Sledujte cesty jednotlivců, kteří se snaží usmířit své kořeny s realitou současnosti.
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.
From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with Knots, the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, Knots is another Farah masterwork.
A gripping novel about zealotry, pirates and Somalia in crisis