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Secrets Paperback - 1999
by Farah, Nuruddin
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- Title Secrets
- Author Farah, Nuruddin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 304
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1999-12-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 245696
- ISBN 9780140280456
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Summary
It is the week before the outbreak of the civil war in Somalia. Kalaman, a successful young businessman in Mogadiscio receives an unexpected house guest—the wild and sexually adventurous Sholoongo, his childhood crush returned from America. She announces that she intends to have his baby. Confronted by this dangerous interruption from his past, Kalaman starts to investigate his family's history, and uncovers the startling key to his own conception. Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the finest contemporary African novelists," Farah writes in a rhythmical, sensual prose reminiscent of García Márquez's best fiction. Evoking the beauty and tragedy of Africa, Secrets is a remarkable portrait of a family disintegrating like its country, its ties dissolved by exposed lies and secrets.
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First line
I felt there was something afoot as soon as I opened the door to my apartment, something to do with an alien aroma.