Sweet and Sour Milk

Nuruddin Farah · b. 1945 · Somalia

Why it matters

A doctor investigates his twin brother's sudden death, uncovering the dictatorship's informants inside his own family. The first novel of Farah's 'Dictatorship' trilogy: Somalia's paranoia and complicity rendered as unbearably intimate.

At a glance

Shifting perspectives and a slow-unfolding conspiracy require close attention to buried political detail.