Knots

<b>From the internationally acclaimed author of <i>North of Dawn</i> comes a beautiful hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu (<i>Time</i>)</b> <p/> Called one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>) Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with <i>Knots</i> the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there amid the devastation and brutality she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong compelling heroine <i>Knots</i> is another Farah masterwork.