Crossbones: A Novel (Past Imperfect Trilogy)
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Crossbones: A Novel (Past Imperfect Trilogy)

Author: Farah, Nuruddin
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ISBN: 9780143122531

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A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Book Review), the internationall...
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A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Book Review), the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips. Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and rai

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