The Orchard of Lost Souls

The Orchard of Lost Souls is a 2013 novel by the Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed. It is set in Somalia on the eve of the civil war.[1] Her second book, coming four years after her award-winning debut work Black Mamba Boy (2009), it was published by Simon & Schuster.[2][3]

The Orchard of Lost Souls
First edition
AuthorNadifa Mohamed
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
September 2013
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages352 pp (1st hardcover edition)
ISBN9781471115295

Reviewing The Orchard of Lost Souls in The Independent, Arifa Akbar said: "If Mohamed's first novel was about fathers and sons ... this one is essentially about mothers and daughters."[4] Aminatta Forna wrote in The New York Times: "In both 'Black Mamba Boy' and 'The Orchard of Lost Souls,' Nadifa Mohamed — generationally at a remove from the events she describes — shows how the echo of war reverberates down the generations, and why every nation needs its storytellers: someone to, if not make sense of events, then order them so that sense may be drawn."[5]

Awards

In 2014 The Orchard of Lost Souls won the Somerset Maugham Award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.[6][7]

References
  1. Jaggi, Maya, "The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed – review. The Betty Trask award winner takes on a complex history of Somalian civil unrest with a focus on women", The Guardian, 14 September 2013.
  2. "The Orchard of Lost Souls". The Lady. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  3. Akbar, Arifa (17 August 2013). "Mothers and Daughters at War in the Cracked Horn of Africa". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  4. Akbar, Arifa, "Book review: The Orchard of Lost Souls, By Nadifa Mohamed", The Independent, 16 August 2013.
  5. Forna, Aminatta, "Daughters of Revolution", The New York Times, 21 March 2014.
  6. Nadifa Mohamed page at The Guardian.
  7. "Dylan Thomas Prize: Swansea University reveals longlist", BBC News, South West Wales, 22 July 2014.
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