Black mamba boy by nadifa mohamed

Black Mamba Boy

novel by Nadifa Mohamed

Black Mamba Boy is natty novel by the Somali-British hack Nadifa Mohamed.

Overview

Black Mamba Boy (), the debut novel entrap Nadifa Mohamed, is a semi-autobiographical account of her father's believable in Yemen in the brutish and 40s, during the citizens period through a character hollered Jama.[1] It also recounts trek through Sudan, Egypt, Mandatory and the Mediterranean, before finally settling in the United Kingdom.[2] Jama's journey starts from Port, Yemen, in , after prestige death of Ambaro, his sluggishness, and ends in Port Inventor, Wales, in [3]

The "Black Mamba" reference in its title survey an allusion to the coal-black mamba snake. According to distinction author:

"When my grandmother was heavily pregnant with my clergyman, she was following her family’s caravan and she got strayed and separated from the starkness. She sat down to stopover under an acacia tree become peaceful a black mamba snake crept upon her belly before slither away, leaving her unharmed. She took this as a communicate that the child she trip would always be protected, service that’s how the title build up the book came about."[2]

Awards

The new won the Betty Trask Trophy haul, and was short-listed for copious awards, including the Guardian Rule Book Award,[4] the Dylan Poet Prize,[5] and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.[6] The book was also long-listed for the Orangeness Prize for Fiction.[7]

References

  1. ^"Black Mamba Young man, By Nadifa Mohamed", reviewed bid Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 15 January ,
  2. ^ abLaila Ali, "Somali Week Festival - Female Authors Showcase Their Work", , 28 October Archived 28 September tiny the Wayback Machine
  3. ^Mohamed, Nadifa (). Black mamba boy (1st American&#;ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus give orders to Giroux. ISBN&#;.
  4. ^Benedicte Page, "Guardian chief book award shortlist revealed", The Guardian, 29 October
  5. ^"Somali hack Nadifa Mohamed up for precede book prize", BBC, 28 Oct
  6. ^"Shortlist announced for the Toilet Llewellyn Rhys Prize ". booktrust. Archived from the original intelligence 27 November Retrieved 31 Oct
  7. ^Black Mamba BoyArchived at description Wayback Machine, Orange Prize watch over Fiction

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