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A man of good hope / Jonny Steinberg.
Van Pelt Library CT2208.A23 S74 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinberg, Jonny, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abdullahi, Asad.
- Somalis.
- Somalia--Biography.
- Somalia.
- Refugees--Somalia.
- Refugees.
- Somalis--South Africa--Biography.
- Somalis--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
- Summary:
- "In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, 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 ... book tells Asad's story, [from a childhood living in a bewildering number of places to an adulthood of financial and romantic success]"--Dust jacket flap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780385352727
- 0385352727
- OCLC:
- 881382865
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