Posted on 10/07/04
Waiting for Somalia
LinksBy Nuruddin FarahRiverhead, 336 pages, $37.50Reading Links, the new book by the exiled Somali writer Nuruddin Farah, I had a nagging attack of déjà vu. Where had I come across this peculiar brand of violent inertia before? Where had I seen this literary self-loathing and this deadened lack of initiative in the characters of a story? And then I remembered: There is a twisted, stunted tree; a pale excuse of a road, dusty and incomplete; and two men who wait and wait - without doing much to change their own fates -- for something to happen, for someone to come. But, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!"
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