“An accomplished first novel.” - Independent (London) Also, I appreciated the perspective that little Jama provides of Somalia and that part of Africa and the middle east at those historical times.
"I think for me, the beauty of this book is in the lovely writing of Nadifa Mohamed. In his travels, Jama will witness scenes of great humanity and brutality he will be caught up in the indifferent, grinding machine of war he will crisscross the Red Sea in search of working papers and a ship. He slings himself from one perilous city to another, fiercely enjoying life on the road and relying on his vast clan network to shelter him and point the way to his father, who always seems just out of reach. So begins Jama’s extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles to Egypt. Jama decides to spend her life’s meager savings to search for his missing father, rumored to be a driver for the British in the north. When his mother dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. For Jama, life is a carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. Jama is a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport.
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