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From A Crooked Rib
''From a Crooked Rib'' is a 1970 novel by Somalis, Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. It was Farah’s debut and was published as the 80th book in Heinemann's Heinemann African Writers Series, African Writers Series. Background Following the rejection of two early manuscripts by both Heinemann (publisher), Heinemann and Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf, Farah spent several months in a state of depression. He had found the rejection he received from Aigboje Higo, manager of Heinemann’s offices in Nigeria, a particular setback. Writing two decades later, Farah reminisced:Looking back on it now, I believe it was the most arrogant missive a young writer had ever received from the editor of a reputable publisher. Aig-Higo, the Nigerian Editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series told me that I had no right submitting a worthless manuscript to a house of their name and high reputation, and he suggested that, since I had no talent whatsoever (these are his words and the letter is there for anyone t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From A Crooked Rib By Nurrudin Farah
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Mogadishu
Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and List of cities in Somalia by population, most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia, and has an estimated population of 2,388,000 (2021). Mogadishu is located in the coastal Banadir region on the Indian Ocean, which unlike other Somali regions, is considered a municipality rather than a (federal state). Mogadishu has a long history, which ranges from the Ancient history, ancient period up until the present, serving as the capital of the Sultanate of Mogadishu in the 9th-13th century, which for many centuries controlled the Indian Ocean gold trade, and eventually came under the Ajuran Empire in the 13th century which was an important player in the medieval Silk Road maritime trade. Mogadishu enjoyed the height of its prosperity during the 14th and 15th centuries a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Nuruddin Farah
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
