This is where her journey ends, in the ‘people market’. From here the fortunate ones will be ransomed out while others end up in the hospital morgue or disappear into prisons all over the country. (The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed, p26)
This is the next book on my to-read list and I’m really looking forward to it. Have you read it yet? Let me know what you think in the comments. If not, here’s the blurb.
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 Deqo has 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.
Sound like something you’d read?
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
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I hadn’t heard of this book until now. It sounds interesting, I hope you enjoy it 😀
I did one today as well, if you want to take a look?
http://kerrieanns.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/teaser-tuesday-the-litigators/