Maps: A Novel

"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events."—Nadine Gordimer

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a...