The best books on Somalia: start your reading here | Pushpinder Khaneka

Our literary tour of Somalia examines lives blighted by conflict, and finds reasons for optimism in the 'world's most failed state'

Set in Somalia around the 2006 US-backed Ethiopian invasion, the final volume in Farah's Past Imperfect trilogy can be read as a standalone novel. This absorbing story puts a human face to the tragedy of a failed state.

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