<div><b>Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award</b><br><br>The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed <i>Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship</i> trilogy, <i>Sweet and Sour Milk</i> chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as "Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own" (Chinua Achebe).<br></div>