A Man of Good Hope Contributor(s): Steinberg, Jonny (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804171041 ISBN-13: 9780804171045 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2013046388 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.70 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 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. |