Horses Like the Wind and Other Stories of Africa: And Other Stories of Africa

by Morrow, Baker H.

• ISBN13: 9780870816260
• ISBN10: 0870816268
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

Set in Somalia just after its independence in the 1960s, this book is a collection of nine short stories that paint vivid portraits of the many different lives that intertwine along the Horn of Africa. A ruthless horse dealer comes up against the best tracker in the Somali army; transplanted Italian farmers look to a future of stark disintegration as they struggle to hold on to their lands and their families; gutsy American women attempt to establish lives of their own in the remote East African desert; and a beggar and an idealist meet in a chance encounter on the steps of a Mogadishu bank, with mind-numbing consequences. Based on the author's own time spent in East Africa, this is an evocative collection for the reader interested in Somalia's birth as a nation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Wells of the Western Shore	1	(10)
A Measure of Solitude	11	(8)
Ant Mounds	19	(8)
A Pillar of Islam	27	(8)
A Madonna of the East	35	(10)
Banco di Roma	45	(20)
An African Hollow	65	(10)
Under the Amoud Range	75	(12)
Horses Like the Wind	87	(8)
Acknowledgments	95	(4)
Map: Somalia in the 1960s	99	(2)
About the Author	101