“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.” — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“... the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers” — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed through her.… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.” — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles,… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
