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By: Farah, Nuruddin
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BookPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2004Description: 336 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780143034841.Subject(s): Americans -- Somalia -- Fiction | Political refugees -- Fiction | Somali Americans -- Fiction | Mothers -- Death -- Fiction | Abduction -- Fiction | Mogadishu (Somalia) -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Suspense fiction.DDC classification: 823/.914 Review: "Jeebleh is returning from New York to his native Mogadiscio for the first time in twenty years, over the strong objections of his American wife and daughters. He finds a decimated, divided city. The U.S. troops have recently come and gone, and Mogadiscio is ruled by ruthless warlords and their clan-based qaat-chewing, gun-crazy militias." "Jeebleh is returning to visit his mother's grave, "to pacify her troubled spirit" - but more urgent, the youngest member of his oldest friend's family has been abducted. The missing girl is known throughout Mogadiscio as a "miracle child" who has brought a unique peace to her section of the civil war-torn city. Jeebleh is determined to cut through the city's layers of corruption and chaos to rescue the girl - and, perhaps, a piece of his own identity. But he quickly learns that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is more complicated than he is prepared for."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Jeebleh is returning from New York to his native Mogadiscio for the first time in twenty years, over the strong objections of his American wife and daughters. He finds a decimated, divided city. The U.S. troops have recently come and gone, and Mogadiscio is ruled by ruthless warlords and their clan-based qaat-chewing, gun-crazy militias." "Jeebleh is returning to visit his mother's grave, "to pacify her troubled spirit" - but more urgent, the youngest member of his oldest friend's family has been abducted. The missing girl is known throughout Mogadiscio as a "miracle child" who has brought a unique peace to her section of the civil war-torn city. Jeebleh is determined to cut through the city's layers of corruption and chaos to rescue the girl - and, perhaps, a piece of his own identity. But he quickly learns that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is more complicated than he is prepared for."--BOOK JACKET.
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