Our City That Year The elite underbelly of a

The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city

have changed dramatically

Taken from the desert by her strict father and then displaced along with millions of others by the Somali Civil War

Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood

Glory shows a country's imploding

Our City That Year The elite underbelly of aPaperback, like new From the International Booker Prize winning author translator duo of Tomb of Sand, a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured society, loosely based on the gathering violence that led to the demolition of the Babri Mosque by religious extremists in 1992. That year, in our city, Hindus abandoned their pacifism. Weve run out of other cheeks to turn, they proclaimed. Were helpless! they screamed. They climbed atop mosques and