From a crooked rib
By: Nuruddin Farah
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Somalia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somali when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity.