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product_id: 8856522
title: "From a Crooked Rib"
brand: "nuruddin farah"
price: "₨15878"
currency: LKR
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reviews_count: 3
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# From a Crooked Rib

**Brand:** nuruddin farah
**Price:** ₨15878
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** From a Crooked Rib by nuruddin farah
- **How much does it cost?** ₨15878 with free shipping
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## Description

From a Crooked Rib

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ snapshots into culture
*by S***E on September 3, 2011*

I have recently been interested in reading books from North Africa and the Middle East, both fiction/non-fiction, and this book was no disappointment for me. I enjoyed the snapshots into the culture of the region and the language was able to evoke great imagery during my reading of this. I lent this to my mother while she was visiting and she also lapped it up, we have very different tastes in literature, so I can see how this would reach a great audience. It can also be a great course book, this is how we used it, to open discussion on independence, freedom, and democratic values.Great book

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Independence . . .
*by L***R on March 19, 2007*

Written 40 years ago, this early novel from Somali writer Nuruddin Farah tells of an independent but uneducated young woman who leaves her tribe rather than marry a man she does not care for and flees to a life in town - first a rural center called Belet Wene and then to the city of Mogadishu. It is near the time of Somalia's independence from Italy, and her unsophisticated and limited grasp of what independence means for her may well represent the author's vision of Somalia, about to steer its own course in the modern world - a path that has led, as we know, to much political and economic discord.Ebla, the central character, takes shelter first with a cousin, whose wife gives birth to a child in the first days of her arrival. In spite of her independence, Ebla often permits herself to be guided by decisions others make for her, which is much of the time. As a result, she marries a man she has met only once, and while her first husband is away for several months, she marries another man, who is himself already married (permissible for him in a Muslim culture) but to a battle-ax of a woman who thoroughly intimidates him.In a picaresque style that varies between comedy and melodrama, the story focuses in passing on the conditions of being female in Somalia where, created from the "crooked rib" of Adam, a woman counts in Muslim law as only half a person, marriages are arranged for them, female circumcision is common, and only a clever, worldly woman can achieve a hard-won independence from dominance by men.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful debut
*by C***T on November 10, 2006*

Nuruddin Farah's 1970 fiction debut is certainly the best possible entry into the world and work of this marvelous story-teller. The style is smooth and rich like a finely woven tapestry.Don't believe a single word of what the other reviewer has said : some people tend to think that literature is a branch of sociology or history !!!

## Frequently Bought Together

- From a Crooked Rib
- The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2

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*Last updated: 2026-03-06*