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008			110516s2011 nyu b 000 1 eng
010			_a 2011018748
020			_a9781594488160 (hbk.)
020			_a1594488169 (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn706017180
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100	1		_aFarah, Nuruddin, _d1945-
245	1	0	_aCrossbones / _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 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 raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war. Completing the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Completing the trilogy that began with LINKS and KNOTS, Jeebleh returns to Somalia, now in a religionist grip, along with his journalist son-in-law, Malik, and Malik's brother Ahl, who is in search of his stepson-turned-pirate"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAmericans _zSomalia _vFiction.
651		0	_aMogadishu (Somalia) _vFiction.
655		0	_aPolitical fiction.
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