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title: "Secrets Paperback – December 1, 1999"
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# Secrets Paperback – December 1, 1999

**Brand:** nuruddin farah
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- **What is this?** Secrets Paperback – December 1, 1999 by nuruddin farah
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			        		"Nuruddin Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the last twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction". -- The New York Review of Books
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Set against the backdrop of Somalia's devastating civil war, Secrets is a stunning revelatory novel by one of the major figures of modern African literature. The city of Mogadiscio is in crisis when the protagonist, Kalaman, receives an unexpected house guest, his childhood crush returned from America. Sensual and demanding, Sholoongo announces her intention to have his child, pulling Kalaman back into a past full of doubts and secrets. As Kalaman begins to tear apart the myth that is his family, he uncovers the starting truth of his own conception.Secrets displays Farah's talents to the fullest. His "daring, lush, urbane voice" (The New York Times Book Review) evokes the beauty and tragedy that is Africa. It will stand as one of the great works of modern African literature.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

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    View of Women Questionable
  

*by P***W on June 17, 2008*









  
  
    The novel, by a world-reknowned African novelist, is a mixture of in-your-face village realities and what seemed to me to be gratuitous magical realism. The final section is about the power of a woman, but it is so horrifying as to be misogynist.
  


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    Great storyteller
  

*by K***E on August 18, 2013*









  
  
    My favorite author is nuruddin farah. His stories come to life and are effortlessly fascinating.I would purchase any book from this author.
  


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    vague verbiage voids value
  

*by B***N on September 24, 2013*









  
  
    It's Somalia---Mogadishu and environs---back when the country was about to descend into clan warfare and central government would disappear.  The country's premier author has written this novel about a time of troubles.  But you, the reader, are making your way through a thick jungle with heavily-scented flowers, buzzing insects, and the cries of hidden creatures that you hear but never see.  It's all exotic and fascinating in a sweaty way, but why are you cutting such a path ?  Where are you heading ?  Personally, this reviewer lost his ambition to reach the end and despaired of even finding an open space where he could catch his breath and take stock of some direction.  Those who love pure, lush verbiage, stacks of proverbs and unusual images will disagree with my take on SECRETS, but in my view, you must be a very determined reader to reach the end.  I admired his "Sardines", written over thirty years ago and so was most willing to try this one, but I was disappointed.  The writing is skillful; shifting voices, building up some tension (extremely slowly), extensive use of magical realism.  'Nuoro'--a quality which enables plants, animals and humans to divine who wishes them harm and who is benign.  'Nuoro' enables you to know when to stay and when to run.  I think 'nuoro' helped me to stop reading, though the book did not harm me of course.  'Nabsi' is a quality that leads to human stability, an equilibrium of sorts.  I moved in that direction by reading something else.  Nuruddin Farah has talent, but I think it went overboard in this novel.  That's it.
  


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