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| Title: | Horses Like the Wind
: and Other Stories of Africa |
| Author: | Baker H Morrow |
| ISBN: | 0870816268 : 9780870816260 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 102 |
| Weight: | .395 Kg. |
| Published: | University Press of Colorado - February 2002 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Short stories: AFRICA |
Set in Somalia just after its independence in the 1960s, this book is a collection of nine short stories that paint vivid portraits of the many different lives that intertwine along the Horn of Africa. A ruthless horse dealer comes up against the best tracker in the Somali army; transplanted Italian farmers look to a future of stark disintegration as they struggle to hold on to their lands and their families; gutsy American women attempt to establish lives of their own in the remote East African desert; and a beggar and an idealist meet in a chance encounter on the steps of a Mogadishu bank, with mind-numbing consequences. Based on the author's own time spent in East Africa, this is an evocative collection for the reader interested in Somalia's birth as a nation.
