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The orchard of lost souls Copertina flessibile – 17 luglio 2014

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From the author of The Fortune Men,  shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2021...

'From Somaliland's bitter past blooms a moving and mature novel of conflict and survival' Independent

It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall.

Nine-year-old Deqohas left the vast refugee camp she was born in, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north.

And as the country is unravelled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of the three women are twisted irrevocably together. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love,The Orchard of Lost Souls is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.

*** Praise for Nadifa Mohamed ***

'Mohamed is a lyrical writer, and although her material could easily be exploited, she does not so much milk it for emotion as elevate it to a kind of searing poetry' Publishers Weekly

'A writer of great humanity and intelligence. Nadifa Mohamed deeply understands how lives are shaped both by the grand sweep of history and the intimate encounters of human beings' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire

'The Fortune Men confirms Mohamed as a literary star of her generation' Observer

'Mohamed is . . . intent on expanding her world, listing its teeming varieties and presenting a wealth of character and language' TLS

'Evocative and enlightening' New Statesman

'As these three women's stories entwine, the result is a moving and captivating tale of survival and hope in a war-torn country, and confirms Mohamed's stature as one of Britain's best young novelists' Stylist

'Three women watch, and suffer, as their native Somalia descends into brutal civil war. It's 1988. The atrocities pile up, but the authorial voice remains resolutely melodic' Vogue

'With the unadorned language of a wise, clear-eyed observer, Nadifa Mohamed has spun an unforgettable tale. The Orchard of Lost Souls recounts not just a state's descent into war, but war's most heartbreaking human toll: the death of dreams' Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go



 

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  1. Lunghezza stampa
    338 pagine
  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Editore
    Simon & Schuster
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    17 luglio 2014
  5. Dimensioni
    12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1471115305
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1471115301
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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; 1° edizione (17 luglio 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 338 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1471115305
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1471115301
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 240 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Mohamed Osman
5,0 su 5 stelle Five Stars
Recensito in Canada il 5 aprile 2018
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Fantastic reading. Great story, very well written.
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Abeer Y. Hoque
5,0 su 5 stelle gorgeous harrowing story of Somalia
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 4 giugno 2018
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“How time plays its jokes. It raises dwarves and hobbles giants.”

Nadifa Mohamed’s second novel The Orchard of Lost Souls is a gorgeous harrowing story of Somalia’s war-torn history as seen through the eyes of three very different women in the city of Hargeisa. There’s Kawsar, an older woman with a past full of loss, Deqo, a 9-year-old girl trying to make a life outside the refugee camp she was born/abandoned in, and Filsan, a young woman and soldier in the Revolutionary Army of Somalia.

The dreams, relationships and lives of women of different ages and social and economic classes are powerful aspects of this novel. To this end. even secondary characters, like the sex workers that take Deqo in, and Filsan’s spoiled American cousins, and Kawsar’s maid with her dreams of modeling, are fully realized. I was especially taken with how precisely and sensitively the struggles of older women were portrayed, in both bodily and societal ways: “They are reincarnations of all the children who are begotten to harass old women, a fresh regiment of them born in every generation to extinguish the will to live in the already despairing.”

The writing in The Orchard of Lost Souls offers many magnificent passages. One from the beginning of the book, a description of the city of Hargeisa, drips with fabulist beauty:

“In the centre of the city where the alleys narrow at points to the width of a man’s shoulder blades, you can walk as if in a dream, never certain of what might appear after the next bend: a bare-chested man with a silver swordfish slung over his thin black back, a shoal of children reciting Qu’ran from their wooden slates, a girl milking a white, lyre-horned cow.”

However, Mohamed doesn’t shy away from the violence and unrest of the war that is tearing Somalia apart. Oppressive patriarchal and misogynist social structures, desperate citizenry (nomadic and city dwelling), failing hospitals, protesting students, and murderous soldiers loom over the narrative with increasing ominousness.

I haven’t read much Somali literature, so The Orchard of Lost Souls was an education for me. I recommend this novel for its strong female characters, the often incandescent writing and a ferocious history of a nation in collapse.
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Trevor Coote
5,0 su 5 stelle A poignant portrayal of three women sucked into a brutal conflict
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 5 marzo 2018
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What have the following got in common: Blackhawk Down, Mo Farah, the late David Bowie’s wife Iman, the plant khat and your local money transfer centre (in London)? They probably comprise your sum total knowledge of Somalia, an apparently endlessly suffering country in the Horn of Africa. In the exquisite novel The Orchard of Lost Souls we are transported into one of the catastrophic events that kick-started the ongoing Somalian Civil War and which led to that country becoming the poster boy of the ‘failed state’: the Somali Rebellion of the late 1980’s. This wonderful work contributes to a better understanding of why Somalia is so troubled today and it may even send some readers scurrying to Wikipedia.
Of course, the tragedy of modern day Somalia had begun well before the 80’s rebellion during a period of divisive and incompetent colonialism and an ill-judged invasion of Ethiopia. As in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s superb Half of a Yellow Sun set in the Nigerian Civil War, the author Nadifa Mohamed has had to recreate the experience of living in a local apocalypse a generation after the event. However, given that the author was born there (Somalia) and that the dust has never settled in her native country, this was a natural opportunity to depict the brutal mess in fictional form based largely on familial experiences, and by extension to enable us to understand both the relief and the hidden pain of exile from home. She achieves this with a work of almost incomparable beauty and emotional power given the grim ugliness of the subject she had to work on.
The Somali Rebellion is recounted through the experiences of three women of different ages and social classes: a young refugee camp runaway sheltered by local prostitutes, an elderly middle-class widow bedridden after a brutal beating by the police and a zealous woman soldier employed to suppress the rebellion in the tribal north. Each character is beautifully drawn and, as in any great fiction (and this is great fiction), reader sympathies towards each of them waver with the ebb and flow of their moods and feelings, their unravelled personal histories and the constant impingement of external events, until it becomes clear that all are trying to deal with that most profoundly debilitating human experience: inner loss. The three protagonists are tragically and movingly connected in an uncontrived and ultimately heart-rending way. The horror of an already unfortunate country in rapid meltdown, and the confused and almost helpless position of women embroiled within it, has rarely if ever been so lyrically portrayed. This is one of the finest novels I have read in recent years and is severely underrated.
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Sabine Goepfert
4,0 su 5 stelle Orchard of lost souls
Recensito in Germania il 4 giugno 2015
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Die Charaktere lebendig geschildert, die Schicksale der drei Frauen bewegend, die Schrecken des Krieges absolut nachvollziehbar, der Schluss versöhnlich. Die Poesie des" orchard of lost souls" sehr bewegend und schön.
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Kass
5,0 su 5 stelle Five Stars
Recensito in Canada il 6 luglio 2015
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Item as described.
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