Dear All!

Sultan Somjee kindly wrote to me on 28.02.2004:

Dear Evelin
Just finished reading Nuruddin Farah's novel called Links. He is the famed
Somali writer. Links is about humiliation and revenge in Mogadiscio. The
loss of human dignity and culture. Insightful situations in a degraded city.
Greetings,
Sultan

Dear All!
Please read a review about this novel by Richard Barlett on
http://www.africanreviewofbooks.com/Reviews/farah.html (this review first appeared in www.africanreviewofbooks.com; I received the kind permission of Luzette Strauss, Website Editor of African Review of Books, to place this link on our website):

...
Jeebleh is a Somalian who returns from the comfort of New Yok to his homeland of Somalia after an absence of more than 20 years. He has returned to his birthplace to mourn the death of his recently deceased mother. He has left his anxious family behind, and arrives in Mogadiscio as foreigner with a Somali passport. His distance, his separation, from his nuclear family, is a metaphor for the similar distance between the reality of Somalia and his/our notions of family. ...

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