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The private apartments : stories / Idman Nur Omar.

by Omar, Idman Nur.

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Somali diaspora -- Fiction.

Women, Somali -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.

9781487011383 (pbk.)

180 p. ; 18 cm.

Rome, 1991 -- London, 1998 -- Welland, 2000 -- Toronto, 2005 -- Amsterdam, 2008 -- Toronto, 2011 -- Dubai, 2016 -- Toronto, 2020.

"Moving, insightful, linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants -- despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland. In the insular rooms of The Private Apartments, a cleaning lady marries her employer's nephew and then abandons him. A woman accepts an opulent gold bangle from one man yet weds another. A depressed young mother finds unlikely support in her community housing complex. A new bride attends weddings to escape her abusive marriage. A failed nurse is sent to relatives in Dubai after a nervous breakdown. Beginning in 1991, the year the Somali Civil War started, these eight articulate stories dwell in the domestic sphere -- marriages, friendships, families -- in high-rises and low-income neighbourhoods from Rome to Toronto. Resilient, resolved women do what it takes to thrive in new cities, while feeling estranged from a conflict-ridden homeland and grappling with the privilege of having the resources to facilitate such an escape. Recurring characters are delicate threads that eloquently showcase the intricate linkages of human experience and the ways in which Somalis, even as a diaspora, are indelibly connected."--Provided by publisher.

Linked stories.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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