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The Mourning Tree: An Autobiography and a Prison Memoir
This prison memoir will not only give first-hand information of the experience of the brutalities of Siyad Barre’s Somalia but also of the life of a nomad child who is brought to the city to live with his aunt because there was no work for him due to the fact that his father did not own any camels to be looked after. In the city while growing up, hunger was never far away.
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Paperback
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1st
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214 pages
Published
February 20th 2010
by Ponte Invisible
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A powerful telling of hardship. It was a real eye opener particularly during his childhood on understanding the somali culture better. Moreover realising the brutality of which many Somalis had to endure during that period of time. A wonderful memoir of how life can really be unpredictable.
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