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Name: Maps

Author: Nuruddin Farah
Year: 1986
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Culture: Africa

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ISBNs:
9780140296433
0140296433

This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a man named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.

This book is part of the "Blood in the Sun" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Secrets"
First published in 1998
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"Gifts"
First published in 1993
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