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A Man of Good Hope

Paperback • 2015 • English

A Man of Good Hope

By Jonny Steinberg

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About the book

When 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 th...Show more

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ISBN

9780804171045

Publisher

VINTAGE

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

A Man of Good Hope

Format

Paperback

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