{"product_id":"9780374709921","title":"The Orchard of Lost Souls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure.\u003cbr\u003e     Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall.\u003cbr\u003e     Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes.\u003cbr\u003e     Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station.\u003cbr\u003e     Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north.\u003cbr\u003e     As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together.\u003cbr\u003e     Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa and was exiled before the outbreak of war. In \u003ci\u003eThe Orchard of Lost Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, she returns to Hargeisa in her imagination. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, this novel is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118485225712,"sku":"9780374709921","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374709921_p0.jpg?v=1769917088","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374709921","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}