From a Crooked Rib
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780435900809 (0435900803)
Publish date: October 28th 1970
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Pages no: 182
Edition language: English
Farah takes the perspective of Ebla, a nineteen-year old Somali girl from a rural area who has no education, and whose reflections on freedom and society form the incendiary core of the book. Most of them arise from her experience at the hands of men to whom she is a chattel.I found this to be a mov...
In telling of Ebla, an 18-year-old runaway who seeks solace in the home of her Mogadishu cousin, Nuruddin Farah draws multiple comparisons to the lives of animals. In one segment, the reader hears of monkeys who cake their female’s vagina with dirt in order to stave off – or reveal signs of – adult...
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