_20.00_Focus Africa
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Große Bühne Nuruddin Farah (Somalia/South Africa) in conversation with Ilija Trojanow (Bulgaria/Germany)
Reader: Frank Arnold
Authors who are forced into exile like Somalian Naruddin Farah who lives in Cape Town probably have more reasons than others to write about travelling as quest. In his trilogy "Maps”, "Gifts" and "Secrets" he described the quest of the African for social, personal, family-related and sexual identity. These searches are often driven by strong women in the centre of the events just like in his recent work, "Knots".
In addition Farah will be reading from his novel “Links”, which was recently published in German. In it, an expatriate returns to his Somalian homeland, where he is caught in conflict in every aspect of life – between cultures, languages, religions.
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