From a crooked Rib
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 27 Nov 2003
£12.99
Salman Rushdie
Synopsis
‘God created Woman from a crooked rib; and any one who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it.’
Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somali when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadiscio, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are ‘sold like cattle’. Written with complete conviction from a woman’s viewpoint, Nuruddin Farah’s spare, shocking first novel savagely attacked the traditional values of his people, yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit.
With a new Introduction by Richard Dowden
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141187174
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 192
Published : 27 Nov 2003
Publisher : Penguin Classics
From a crooked Rib
£12.99
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