Description: War in Somalia transforms a simple village girl into a self-confident woman who even swims and drives a car. She is Duniya, a widow with three children.
Review Quotes: "One of Africa's major writers . . . a genuine artist . . . His mastery of complex forms of narration, based on echoes, symmetry, and musical patterns, make his an original voice." --Times Literary Supplement
"Farah is in control of his enormous talents as a novelist, writing in the best tradition of Solzhenitsyn and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. . . . One of his continent's major novelists." --World Literature Today "Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists."--Salman Rushdie