Nadifa Mohamed: 7 books

Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother—alternately raging and loving—dies young, she leaves him only an amulet...

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia...

A short story by Nadifa Mohamed from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In ‘Party Girl’, ahead of settling down, a woman looks back on her rebellious youth. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest...

Per quale ragione «L’ho sposato, lettore mio» è una delle frasi più celebri e citate della letteratura inglese? La risposta, tutt’altro che ovvia, risiede nel capolavoro da cui è tratta: Jane Eyre (1847), la storia di un’orfana che, grazie alla sola intelligenza e caparbietà, riesce a...

‘Een prachtig portret van drie vrouwen in roerige tijden.’ – New York Journal of Books 1988: geruchten over een revolutie waaien rond in de droge wind. Binnen niet al te lange tijd, en door de ogen van drie verschillende vrouwen, zullen we Somalië zien breken. De negenjarige Dego heeft...

Per festeggiare i 200 anni della nascita di Charlotte Brontë, Tracy Chevalier ha chiesto alle migliori autrici in lingua inglese di scrivere una storia ispirata alla celebre battuta di Jane Eyre: «L’ho sposato, lettore mio». Questo racconto fa parte della raccolta dedicata a Charlotte Brontë: L’ho sposato, lettore mio a cura di TRACY CHEVALIER

`Ik vertel je dit verhaal over oorlog en over mijn vader en over mijn geliefde Somalië omdat niemand anders het zal vertellen Jemen, 1935. Jama is een straatschoffie dat met zijn vriendjes de stoffige markten van Aden afstruint. Wanneer zijn moeder sterft, staat Jama er alleen voor. De oorlog nadert...