Adua (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
216
Utgivningsdatum
2019-11-28
Förlag
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
Originalspråk
Italian
Dimensioner
198 x 132 x 15 mm
Vikt
184 g
ISBN
9781909762923

Adua

av Igiaba Scego
Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-11-28
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Once a young girl in Somalia who wanted to be in films and escape the domineering grasp of her father, Adua is now an "Old Lira," a woman who immigrated to Italy during the first wave in the 1970's. With the end of the Somalian civil war, Adua begins to seriously consider returning to the country of her birth. Sitting at the foot of the elephant statue that holds up the obelisk in Santa Maria square in Rome, she recounts her story, attempting to make sense of the past forty years and what the future might hold. When she first arrived in Rome and her film dreams ended in failure and shame, she knew she could not return to totalitarian Somalia and the vice-like purview of her father. Once a translator for the Italian colonial regime, her father's past in Italy and the rest of his life in Somalia were characterized by attempts to live fully under the punishing hand of regimes, while Adua was left to reckon with the after-effects of his choices. Adua is the unforgettable story of a father and daughter grappling with the implications of colonialism, immigration and racism that have bisected both of their lives.
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Igiaba Scego is a Somali Italian novelist and journalist. She writes for several national newspapers such as Internazionale. She was born in Rome to Somali parents who had emigrated to Italy following Siad Barre's 1969 coup d'tat. Scego's father had been a well-known politician in Somalia and had held posts such as ambassador and foreign minister. In 2010, Scego published a narrative memoir, La mia casa dove sono (Rizzoli), which was awarded Premio Mondello. She is also the author of the novel Beyond Babylon, published in English in 2019.

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