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010			_a2011-018748
020			_a9781594488160 (hbk.)
020			_a1594488169 (hbk.)
035			_a16780990
039			_y 201305171708 _z991
040			_dUG-KaMUL
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092			_a823.914 FAR
100			_aFarah, Nuruddin, _d1945-
245			_a Crossbones / _cNuruddin Farah.
260			_aNew York : _bRiverhead Books, _c2011.
300			_a389 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [387]-389).
520			_a"A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" . (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last vis it, 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 chao s 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 s earching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, a pparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious ins urgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper i nto the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before t he borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the une asy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war. Completing the trilogy tha t began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at indiv iduals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political confl ict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Completing the trilogy that began with LINKS and KNOTS, Jeebleh ret urns to Somalia, now in a religionist grip, along with his journalist s on-in-law, Malik, and Malik's brother Ahl, who is in search of his step son-turned-pirate"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aAmericans _zSomalia _v Fiction.
651			_aMogadishu (Somalia) _v Fiction.
655			_aPolitical fiction.
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