Horses like the wind
Subtitle: and other stories of Africa
By: Baker H. Morrow.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Somalia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Africa, East -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set in Somalia just after its independence in the 1960s, Horses Like the Wind and Other Stories of Africa is a collection of nine short storied that paint a portrait of the many different lives that intertwine along the Horns of Africa.

A ruthless horse dealer comes up against the best tracker in the Somali army; transplanted Italian farmers look to a future of stark disintegration as they struggle to hold on to their lands and their families; gutsy American women attempt to establish lives of their own in the remote East African desert; and a beggar and an idealist meet in a chance encounter on the steps of a Mogadishu bank, with mind-numbing consequences."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Wells of the western shore; title: A measure of solitude; title: Ant-mounds; title: A pillar of Islam; title: A madonna of the East; title: Banco di Roma; title: An African hollow; title: Under the Amoud Range; title: Horses like the wind.