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Name: Close Sesame

Author: Nuruddin Farah
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Culture: Africa

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9780850314755
9781555971625
0850314755
1555971628

Farah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the third and final book in the series, the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. An old man finds himself poised in mortal combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in an atmosphere where the distinction between public and private justice is always obscured.

Close Sesame is a novel that offers "an eloquent indictment of the tyrannies committed both under Islamic law and in the name of Socialism" (The Observer).

This book is part of the "Variations on the Theme of An African Dictatorship" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Sardines"
First published in 1981
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"Sweet and Sour Milk"
First published in 1980
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