Description: "In Mogadiscio, the dictator is preparing to flee and clans are moving into the city, which rattles with machine gun fire. Society is collapsing under the weight of its own perversities. Unexpectedly, Kalaman, a businessman who owns a computer store, receives a visit from his childhood crush, who has returned from America to take him up on an old pledgeand have his child. The arrival of his house guest pulls Kalaman back into a past he thought he had escaped, rife with doubts and secrets that go deep into his heritage."--Page 4 of cover.
Review Quotes: "The plot is rich and the language is superb, exotic and consciousness-expanding. . . . It's enough to make you homesick for a country that is not your own."--Los Angeles Times
"His prose is so fresh and inventive, and the social relations, particularly those of a sexual nature, are so frank and explicit that once you start this novel, you may find it difficult to put down." --Alan Cheuse, NPR "In spellbinding, luminous prose, Farah unpeels layer after layer of family history. His Somalia longs to be freed of ancient antagonisms and delivered into stable nationhood built on reason."--Baltimore Sun "With Secrets, Nuruddin Farah solidifies his reputation as one of the world's great writers."--Ishmael Reed