Nadifa Mohamed
Thursday 19th September 2013
Venue
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
Start Time
8pm
8pm

Nadifa Mohamed’s first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won her the Betty Trask Award and earned her a place as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Her hotly-anticipated new novel The Orchard of Lost Souls shows the Somalian civil war through the eyes of a nine year old girl, a widow and a soldier, all told in Mohamed’s characteristic sensitive and pulsing prose. Her work deftly interweaves the influences of the Western canon and the African tradition of the griot storyteller. Come and discover a writer who bridges cultures and continents with a stroke of the pen.