# From a Crooked Rib

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- Book: [From a Crooked Rib](https://www.bookquiver.com/nuruddin-farah/from-a-crooked-rib) ([From a Crooked Rib.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nuruddin-farah/from-a-crooked-rib.md))
- Authors: [Nuruddin Farah](https://www.bookquiver.com/nuruddin-farah)
- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-726-2
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2006-06-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the...