Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Farah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam.
Sardines brilliantly combines a social commentary on life under a dictatorship with a compassionate exploration of African feminist issues.
- ISBN10 0435902520
- ISBN13 9780435902520
- Publish Date 29 November 1982 (first published 24 September 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 250
- Language English