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Sardines

Sardines

Author(s): Nuruddin Farah

Location(s): Somalia

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

Farah’s landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorshiptrilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam.

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