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Black Mamba Boy 

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Nadifa MohamedBlack Mamba Boy (2010)
A novel by Nadifa Mohamed

 
"Ambitious... A phenominal fast-forward story... The novel takes on a Job-like tenor."
Lorraine Adams


Yemen, 1935. Jama is a 'market boy,' a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother - alternately raging and loving - dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life's meager savings on a search for his never-seen father; the rumors that travel along clan lines report that he is a driver for the British somewhere in the north. So begins Jama's extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles north all the way to Egypt, by camel, by truck, by train, but mostly on foot. He slings himself from one perilous city to another, fiercely enjoying life on the road and relying on his vast clan network to shelter him and point the way to his father, who always seems just a day or two out of reach.

In his travels, Jama will witness scenes of great humanity and brutality; he will be caught up in the indifferent, grinding machine of war; he will crisscross the Red Sea in search of working papers and a ship. Bursting with life and a rough joyfulness, Black Mamba Boy is debut novelist Nadifa Mohamed's vibrant, moving celebration of her family's own history.

 
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Hardback Editions

January 2011 : Hardback
Title: Black Mamba Boy (Ulverscroft)
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 1-4448-0523-1 / 978-1-4448-0523-9
Publisher: Ulverscroft
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August 2010 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0374114196Title: Black Mamba Boy: A Novel
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 0-374-11419-6 / 978-0-374-11419-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Paperback Editions

August 2011 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0312569238Title: Black Mamba Boy: A Novel
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 0-312-56923-8 / 978-0-312-56923-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Picador
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August 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007315775Title: Black Mamba Boy
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 0-00-731577-5 / 978-0-00-731577-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Harper
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January 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007315740Title: Black Mamba Boy
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 0-00-731574-0 / 978-0-00-731574-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Audio Editions

August 2010 : MP3 CD
Cover of ISBN: 1441754911Title: Black Mamba Boy
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 1-4417-5491-1 / 978-1-4417-5491-2
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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August 2010 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1441754903Title: Black Mamba Boy: A Novel
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 1-4417-5490-3 / 978-1-4417-5490-5
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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August 2010 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1441754881Title: Black Mamba Boy
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 1-4417-5488-1 / 978-1-4417-5488-2
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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August 2010 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1441754873Title: Black Mamba Boy
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 1-4417-5487-3 / 978-1-4417-5487-5
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Other Editions

November 2011 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0068Q3SCWTitle: Black Mamba Boy (Littérature étrangère) (French Edition)
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
Publisher: Phébus
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October 2010 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 1441754946Title: Black Mamba Boy (Playaway Adult Fiction)
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN: 1-4417-5494-6 / 978-1-4417-5494-3
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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August 2010 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B003R0L6SATitle: Black Mamba Boy: A Novel
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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January 2010 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0036FOGOWTitle: Black Mamba Boy
Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
Publisher: HarperCollins
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