The Orchard of Lost Souls
Book (italiano):
<DIV></DIV><P><B>From one of <I>Granta</I>’s Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia’s tragic civil war<BR></B><BR>It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure.<BR> Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall.<BR> Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes.<BR> Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station.<BR> Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north.<BR> As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together.<BR> Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa and was exiled before the outbreak of war. In <I>The Orchard of Lost Souls</I>, she returns to Hargeisa in her imagination. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, this novel is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.
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