Nuruddin Farah

For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack....

A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends....

A new novel from one of the world's great writers-an extraordinary work set in Mogadiscio, Somalia-that both breaks new ground and brings him back to his literary roots....

Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature....