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From a Crooked Rib Paperback / softback - 2006
by Nuruddin Farah
- New
- Paperback
Published for the first time in the U. S. internationally celebrated writer Nuruddin Farah's first novel
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's 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 to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are 'sold like cattle.'
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Details
- Title From a Crooked Rib
- Author Nuruddin Farah
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition 60069th
- Condition New
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, New York
- Date 2006-06-27
- Features Glossary
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780143037262
- ISBN 9780143037262 / 0143037269
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.08 x 5.42 x 0.38 in (20.52 x 13.77 x 0.97 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Somalia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005058670
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's 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 to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."
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Citations
- Black Issues Book Review, 07/01/2006, Page 15
- New York Times, 11/26/2006, Page 18