num_pages: 256
description: Farah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk , Sardines , and Close Sesame. In this volume, the third and final book in the series, the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. An old man finds himself poised in mortal combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in an atmosphere where the distinction between public and private justice is always obscured.Close Sesame is a novel that offers "an eloquent indictment of the tyrannies committed both under Islamic law and in the name of Socialism" ( The Observer ).
language: English
title: Close Sesame
titlecomplete: Close Sesame (Variations on the Theme of An African Dictatorship, #3)
genres: Somalia, Novels, Fiction, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 49
series: Variations on the Theme of An African Dictatorship
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Sister Mariella Gable Prize
publisher: Graywolf Press