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Maps : Roman

A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.

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  • "A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets."
  • "A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets."@en
  • "Een Somalische wees tracht zich staande te houden in een door oorlog verscheurd land."
  • "Askar, jeune Somali recueilli à sa naissance par une Ethiopienne, Misra, vit en Ogaden une enfance heureuse, celle de la Somalie avant la partition. La guerre faisant rage , il est envoyé chez son oncle et sa tante à Mogadiscio. A partir de ce moment là, il entre dans le territoire des adultes: un univers de frontières et de cartes..."
  • "Belletristik : Somalia/Ogaden ; Bürgerkrieg - kulturelle Identität."
  • "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."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
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  • "Samfundsskildringer fra nutiden"@da
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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Mapas : romance"
  • "Maps : Roman"@en
  • "Maps : Roman"
  • "Moederland"
  • "Karttoja"@en
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  • "Maps : [a novel]"
  • "Mappe"
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  • "Maps"
  • "Maps"@en
  • "Kaarten"
  • "Maps Roman"
  • "Territoires : roman"@en
  • "Territoires : roman"
  • "Territoires"
  • "Kort"@da

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