House of Rust
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Title: House of Rust
Author: Bajaber, Khadija Abdalla
ISBN: 9781644450680
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2021
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
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Fiction 1286905
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Author: Bajaber, Khadija Abdalla
ISBN: 9781644450680
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2021
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Fiction 1286905
Publisher Description:
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl's fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father
The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar's cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters. After she survives a final confrontation with Baba wa Papa, the father of all sharks, she rescues her own father, and hopes that life will return to normal. But at home, things only grow stranger.