Maps
By: Nuruddin Farah.
Publisher: Penguin; Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Africa -- Fiction
Description: A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.