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The opening chapter frames a narrator who challenges every thought, questions the boundary between self and fiction, and reflects on existence as something formed by ideas in the mind. Through recurring imagery—darkness, windows of secrets, journeys through countless doorways—the text explores how the past emerges alongside a search for meaning and freedom.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 1986, 199, 2012 by Nuruddin Farah  \nAll Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Arcade Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.  \nArcade Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Arcade Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 [or ](or arcade@skyhorsepublishing.com)[arcade@skyhorsepublishing.com](or arcade@skyhorsepublishing.com).  \nArcade Publishing® is a registered trademark of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation.  \nVisit our website [at ](at www.arcadepub.com)[www.arcadepub.com](at www.arcadepub.com).  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.  \nISBN: 978-1-61145-499-4  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBOOKS BY NURUDDIN FARAH  \nFrom a Crooked Rib A Naked Needle  \nVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship  \nSweet and Sour Milk Sardines Close Sesame  \nBlood in the Sun  \nMaps Gifts Secrets  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Muxammad my eldest brother and trusted counsellor  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nLiving begins when you start doubting everything that came before you,  \nSocrates  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nThe germs of Maps developed in the soil of my mind as germs generally do, although as a necessary ingredient of its culture. I introduced various organisms from other bacteria grown in other brains, other earths. Obviously, it is an impossible task to name all my sources. However, prominent among these are The Wise Wound by Peter Redgrove and Penelope Shuttle (Routlege & Kegan Paul Ltd) and The Epic in Africa by Isidore Okpewho (Columbia University Press) .  \nI would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Jos, Nigeria, from whom I received much help and encouragement when, for two academic years, 1981-1983, I was attached to the Department of English as Visiting Reader. It was during this period that I wrote not only a full-length play but also the first version of Maps. However, when doing this final version, I was given generous moral and material assistance from my good friends Lenrie Peters, Liz D., Hewit, and Dr. Ogba—to whom my thanks.  \nNuruddin Farah  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPART ONE  \nNo children for me. Give me grown-ups.  \nCharles Dickens  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \n I  \nY ouexpsrts,siscontemppained; latiyovuespitstourreho, uyrosuarnfdeathouurressaagndozeur, anslepyoulessr,  \nlooking into darkness, hearing a small snore coming from the room next to yours. And you conjure a past: a past in which you see a horse drop its rider; a past in which you discern a bird breaking out of its shell so it will fly into the heavens of freedom. Out of the same past emerges a man wrapped in a mantle with unpatched holes, each hole large as a window—and each window large as the secret to which you cling as though it were the only soul you possessed. And you question, you challenge every thought which crosses your mind.  \nYes. You are a question to yourself. It is true. You’ve become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you, those who have any dealings with you. You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head, or Misra’s. 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