Territoires

Blood in the Sun #1

by Nuruddin Farah, Jacqueline Bardolph

Askar, jeune Somali recueilli à sa naissance par une Ethiopienne, Misra, vit en Ogaden une enfance heureuse, celle de la Somalie d'avant la partition.
Sa circoncision et sa séparation d'avec Misra à huit ans, lorsque, la guerre faisant rage, il est envoyé chez son oncle et sa tante à Mogadiscio, marqueront pour lui la rupture brutale avec l'enfance et l'entrée dans le territoire des adultes, cet univers de frontières et de cartes.

Genres: Fiction, Africa, Somalia, African Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels

450 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Nuruddin Farah (Somali: Nuuradiin Faarax, Arabic: نور الدين فرح‎) is a prominent Somali novelist. Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world, his prose having earned him accolades including the Premio Cavour in Italy, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize in Sweden, the Lettre Ulysses Award in Berlin, and in 1998, the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In the same year, the French edition of his novel Gifts won the St Malo Literature Festival's prize. In addition, Farah is a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.