From a Crooked Rib

Name: From a Crooked Rib
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ISBN: 9780143037262

ISBN-10: 0143037269

ISBN-13: 9780143037262

Edition: 2006

Authors: Nuruddin Farah

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Published for the first time in the U. S.internationally celebrated writer Nuruddin Farahs first novel Written with complete conviction from a womans point of view, Nuruddin Farahs spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English