From a Crooked Rib

From a Crooked Rib
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781101097649
ISBN-13 : 1101097647
Rating : 4/5 (647 Downloads)

Book Synopsis From a Crooked Rib by : Nuruddin Farah

Download or read book From a Crooked Rib written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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