Maps Tapa dura - 1987

UsedGood. moderate shelf wear, worn and faded dust jacket

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York. 1987. September 1987. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0394563255. 247 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Mike Yamashita. keywords: Literature Africa Somalia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this novel, Farah tells the story of the orphan Askar. Before he is born, Askar has lost his father to the bloody war dividing Somalia and Ethiopia, and his mother dies giving birth to him. It is only thanks to Misra, a kindhearted woman who discovers him next to his mother's corpse and takes him into her home, that he survives. But Askar is a true child of his times, and as he matures he begins to feel suffocated by life in Misra's small village. As a young adolescent seeking perspective on both his country and himself, Askar goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital, Mogadiscio. ‘It is a turbulent and dangerous time in Mogadiscio, as Somalis struggle to re-create a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of… Leer más

Pantheon, 1987-08-11. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Light tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases & toning in a mylar.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1987-08-12. First American Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 8x5x1. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. A bright, clean copy.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. 246 pages. A novel by this acclaimed Somali writer. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket.

Pantheon Books, 1986. Book. Fine. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dustjacket : fine / fine. Jacket in new mylar protector. FAE..

Pantheon, 1987-08-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!