A man of good hope
By: Jonny Steinberg
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780385352727; 9780804171045
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Refugees; Biography; Somalis
Description: "In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world. This ... book tells Asad's story, [from a childhood living in a bewildering number of places to an adulthood of financial and romantic success]"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.