The Orchard of Lost Souls

by Nadifa Mohamed

Book Overview

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 fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374209146
• ISBN13: 9780374209148
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"