From a Crooked Rib

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women, Literary
Cover of the book From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah, Penguin Publishing Group
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Author: Nuruddin Farah ISBN: 9781101097649
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: June 27, 2006
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Nuruddin Farah
ISBN: 9781101097649
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: June 27, 2006
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

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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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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