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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonny SteinbergPublish date:2015-12-08Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780804171045ISBN-10:804171041UPC:9780804171045Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Personal MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCFWC5MCBB

A Man of Good Hope

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, 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 extraordinary book tells Asad's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780804171045ISBN-10:804171041UPC:9780804171045Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Personal MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCFWC5MCBB

Jonny Steinberg was born and bred in South Africa. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Sizwe's Test, published by Vintage (also published under the title Three Letter Plague), as well as Midlands and The Number, both of which won South Africa's premier nonfiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. Steinberg was also a recipient of one of the inaugural Windham Campbell...

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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