"Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists."--Salman Rushdie The second novel in Nuruddin Farah\'s Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts is the beguiling tale of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole.
And when Duniya accepts.
Her self-sufficient world is rocked when her rebellious daughter brings home a mysterious foundling infant.
Duniya is a single mother, raising twins while working as a nurse in a Mogadiscio hospital. "Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists."--Salman Rushdie The second novel in Nuruddin Farah\'s Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts is the beguiling tale of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole