Close Sesame

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Farah's landmark </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> trilogy is comprised by the novels </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sweet and Sour Milk</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sardines</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Close Sesame. </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this volume the third and final book in the series the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. An old man finds himself poised in mortal combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in an atmosphere where the distinction between public and private justice is always obscured.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Close Sesame</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a novel that offers an eloquent indictment of the tyrannies committed both under Islamic law and in the name of Socialism (</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Observer</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>).</span></p><p><br></p>