Crossbones: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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A gripping new novel from today’s “most important Africannovelist” (The New York Times Book Review), the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn

A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his belovedMogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law,Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region’s ongoing greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however,but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearingwhips.

Meanwhile, Malik’s brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the regionnotorious as a pirates’ base. Ahl is searching for his stepson,Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by animam allied to Somalia’s rising religious insurgency. The brothers’efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of thecountry, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders arebreached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quietshatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experiencefirsthand the derailments of war.

Completing the trilogy that began with Links andKnots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individualscaught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, byone of our most highly acclaimed international writers.