From the author ofThe Fortune Men, longlisted for The Booker Prize 2021... From Somalilands bitter past blooms a moving and mature novel of conflict and survival Independent It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqohas left the vast ...