ISBN: 9780141187174 [UK]
Continent: Africa
Country: Somalia
Title: From a Crooked Rib
Author: Naruddin Farah
First published in: 1970
"God created Woman from a crooked rib; and any one who trieth to staighten it, breaketh it." (Somali traditional proverb, quoted from Part One)
For my third African novel I chose Naruddin Farah's From a Crooked Rib, the story of a teenage Somali girl, Ebla, who flees from her nomadic tribe in the country to find a new life in Mogadishu. Upset when her grandfather decides to marry her off to an older man, Ebla decides that running away is her only option.
