Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225927 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-31
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

—Salman Rushdie
`Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African writers'

—Publishers Weekly
`The publication of this beautifully written book should be one of the year's literary events'

—Chinua Achebe
`Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own'

Customer Reviews

Hope in the midst of horror
"Links" reveals the thoughts and feelings of Weatern educated men struggling to make sense of the city of Mogadishu, in Somalia during the 1990s. The main theme of the book is the question "how ought one behave?" The plot is a search for two little girls who have been kidnapped. The girls and their innocent friendship serve as symbols of hope in a horrific, ghastly world.

The only flaw is that the writing style seems slightly overblown for my tastes, trying too hard to place the book in the literature category.

Journey into the heart of the conflict
LINKS is a brilliantly written work that introduces and familiarizes us to the intriguing nation called Somalia. We are taken into the depth of Somali culture, the complex nature of its society and suffocating grip of its history. The characters we encounter are full of life and vitality, manifesting good and evil in their different ways and situations. I enjoyed the story and came out of it having a better understanding of Somalia. Triple Agent Double Cross, Disgrace, A Continent for the Taking, Disciples of Fortune, are also books about Africa that I consider as recommended read.

Journey into the heart of the conflict
LINKS is a brilliantly written work that introduces and familiarizes us to the intriguing nation called Somalia. We are taken into the depth of Somali culture, the complex nature of its society and suffocating grip of its history. The characters we encounter are full of life and vitality, manifesting good and evil in their different ways and situations. I enjoyed the story and came out of it having a better understanding of Somalia. Triple Agent Double Cross, Disgrace, A Continent for the Taking, Disciples of Fortune, are also books about Africa that I consider as recommended read.