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A Man of Good Hope (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804171045)
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xWhen civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world.
This extraordinary book tells Asad's story. Tossed from one catastrophe to another, Asad's journey covers countries and continents, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to the Ethiopian hinterland; and the promises and pitfalls of Johannesburg, South Africa, whose streets he believed would be lined with gold. Thus begins a shocking adventure in a country richer and more violent than he could possibly have imagined, leading to the final coda of America. Throughout, A Man of Good Hope is a complex, affecting, ultimately hopeful portrait of Asad's search for salvation, suffused with dreams and desires and a need to leave something permanent on this earth.Author: Jonny Steinberg
ISBN-10: 0804171041
ISBN-13: 9780804171045
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2015
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
By Jonny Steinberg
xJonny Steinberg was born and bred in South Africa. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Sizwe's Test, published by Vintage (also published under the title Three Letter Plague), as well as Midlands and The Number, both of which won South Africa's premier nonfiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. Steinberg was also a recipient of one of the inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes. He teaches African Studies at Oxford University.
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