Nadifa Mohamed, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-11419-0
Mohamed's beautifully rendered debut, inspired by her father's life, opens in 1935 Aden, Yemen, where 11-year-old Jama and his mother subsist in precarious destitution: Jama spending his days on the streets with other "market boys" while his mother...
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Nadifa Mohamed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-20914-8
A brutal confrontation in pre–civil war Somalia intertwines three women’s lives in this devastating second novel by Somali-born Mohamed (after Black Mambo Boy), who is named in Granta’s 2013 “Best of Young British Novelists” list. The story opens in
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Nadifa Mohamed. Knopf, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-53436-6
Set in Cardiff, Wales, in 1952, this searing novel from Mohamed (The Orchard of Lost Souls) draws on a real-life miscarriage of justice—the hanging of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali man, for a murder he didn’t commit. Mahmood, a small-time thief who has...
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