Author: Nuruddin Farah
After their son, Dhaqaneh, kills himself in a suicide attack, Somali immigrants Gacalo and Mugdi reluctantly agree to host his widow, Waliya, and children in Oslo. Their arrival is more disruptive than imagined, as Waliya throws herself into her religion and her children explore their newfound freedoms. Nuruddin Farah’s powerful and timely novel North of Dawn explores the lasting impact of extremism and violence on families.
In this book, the author takes as his premise the threat of violent extremism in Norway, looking at the dangers posed by Wahhabi sects of Islam as well as Norwegian terrorists that use violence to advocate for ethnic purity. But instead of dwelling on the threat of terrorism on a national level, he has written a story about family, both the families we belong to by blood and the ones we forge for ourselves out of circumstance. Nuruddin Farah is the author of eleven previous novels who also won numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
> Shatabdi Sarker Poushi
North of Dawn
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