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Nuruddin Farah · 1998 CE · Novel · East African · Contemporary

Sholoongo, who could take an animal's shape when they were children, returns to Mogadishu and tells Kalaman she means to have a child by him, at the hour the clans are arming and the city is coming apart. His grandfather, his mother and the family account of how he came by his name all turn out to be holding something back. It closes the Blood in the Sun trilogy on the eve of the 1991 collapse.

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