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Nadifa Mohamed

Auteur de Black Mamba Boy

5+ oeuvres 732 utilisateurs 39 critiques
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Comprend les noms: Nadifa Mohamid

Œuvres de Nadifa Mohamed

Black Mamba Boy (2010) 261 exemplaires
The Fortune Men (2021) 261 exemplaires
The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013) 207 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1981
Sexe
female
Nationalité
United Kingdom
Lieu de naissance
Hargeisa, Somalia
Lieux de résidence
Somalia
London, England, UK
Prix et distinctions
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (2013)

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Reading this book made me feel so many things that I didn't know I was capable of.

I don't know what it is about epilogues that make us change our views about the stories by a wide margin but this book is an example of one that you'll come to love more after that final chapter of epilogue.

The story of a wrongly accused man who isn't a saint but completely innocent makes us question how quickly someone can judge others just by seeing their appearances.

The story, I won't spoil the most important part for you but you got to read it to feel it. I liked the pace, I liked the angles from which the story was put forward and the ending just took me in.

I could not put my emotions to words for a while. I know I am doing a pretty shitty job at it now as well.

The book speaks volumes on racism, directed violence and prejudice. It speaks volumes on how there were times (and probably still are) when people wouldn't think twice about someone's loses just to make a few bucks.

YOU HAVE TO READ IT TO FEEL IT AND GET ME.
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AnrMarri | 13 autres critiques | Aug 1, 2023 |
Reason read: ANC
Mohamed Nadifa is a Somali-British novelist. This was her debut novel. This is a story of a coming of age young Somali boy in East Africa and Europe and in this the reader also is given the history of the people and the land. It was interesting and well written. Time period covers the 30s and 40s. It reminds me of other picaresque books. This book was obtained from Hoopla but is also available free on Audible.
 
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Kristelh | 15 autres critiques | Apr 21, 2023 |
Jama and his mother left Somaliland after Jama's father deserted them, and they are now living as dependents with unfriendly relatives in Yemen. To stay out of everyone's hair, including his mercurial mother's, Jama spends his days roaming the markets with other semi-feral children. After his mother's death, Jama decides to search for the father he has never known. At the age of eleven, he travels first to his homeland, then on to Sudan through Italian-held Abyssinia. After a stint as an askaris (local soldier serving in a colonial army), Jama wanders further north searching for a better future in the British merchant marines.

Jama's 1000-mile journey is based on the the life of the author's father. The book opens in 1935 and ends in 1947, covering a very tumultuous period in African history. The Italians and the British are vying for territory and as World War II begins, Jama is caught up in causes he doesn't understand, including, at the end of the novel, the drama of the Jewish refugees on the Exodus. As with all fictional biographies, I wonder where the line is between fact and fiction, but if even the bones of the story are true, it's an incredible one. For a debut novel, it is very well done, and it was long-listed for the Orange Prize.
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labfs39 | 15 autres critiques | Apr 18, 2023 |
* I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for the oppportunity to review this book. *

This novel is based on a great injustice in UK history. Mahmood Mattan is a petty criminal living in Tiger Bay, Cardiff. When a Jewish shopkeeper is murdered, witnesses come forward saying that they saw him at the scene. Mahmood protests his innocence, and is very sure that the police have no case, and that this will all go away eventually.

He is very wrong.

At the outset, Mahmood is not an empathetic character, more of thief, a chancer and a womaniser who has been kicked out by his wife. But as the net closes in around him and the harm being done to him by police and people giving false testimony grows and grows, it becomes clear that he is a victim of racism and petty rivalries. I did not realise until the end that this was a real case, and that Mahmood was a real person who suffered a devastating fate. A great read.… (plus d'informations)
 
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gjky | 13 autres critiques | Apr 9, 2023 |

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