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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    December 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Blood in the Sun

1 - Secrets (Dec-1999)
2 - Gifts (Nov-2000)
3 - Maps (Dec-2000)

Jeebleh

1 - Links (Apr-2004)
2 - Crossbones (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

    Farah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the second of t...



  • “With Secrets, Nuruddin Farah solidifies his reputation as one of the world’s great writers.” -- Ishmael ReedSet against the backdrop of the civil war in Somalia, this stunningly ambitious novel was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Fiction ...



  • The second novel in Farah's acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts tells the story of Duniya, a single mother working at the hospital in Mogadiscio, Somalia's capital city. Times are hard, but they get even more complicated when Duniya's rebelliou...



  • Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the ...



  • Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eigh...



  • From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature.Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgi...



  • Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the third and final book in the series, the characters are deeply entwined in t...



  • Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award

    The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his ...



  • From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nu...






  • A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jee...



  • From an acclaimed African writer, a novel about family, freedom, and loyalty. When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Mogadiscio, she’s in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali mo...



  • A bold, absorbing novel about a couple whose tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nuruddin Farah has published 12 books.

Nuruddin Farah does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, North of Dawn, was published in December 2018.

The first book by Nuruddin Farah, Sardines, was published in January 1981.

Yes. Nuruddin Farah has 2 series.