Sweet and Sour Milk (Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship)

Farah, Nuruddin

ISBN 10: 1555971598 / ISBN 13: 9781555971595

Published by Graywolf Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sweet and Sour Milk (Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship)
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555971598
• ISBN 13: 9781555971595
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as "Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own" (Chinua Achebe).

About the Author

Nuruddin Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa, in what is now the Republic of Somalia. His Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy consists of the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. His other books include From a Crooked Rib, A Naked Needle, and Maps. In 1991, he received the Swedish Tucholsky Literary Award, given to literary exiles, and he was the recipient of the German DAAD fellowship in 1990.