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Carmen in Somali: Prosper Mérimée’s novella of the soldier Don José and Carmen in Andalusia.

Original author: Prosper Mérimée. Original title: Carmen. Translated into Somali from the English text (the work was first written in French).

Xilligii dayrta ee 1830, aqoonyahan Faransiis ah oo Andalusia ku safraya ayaa buuraha kula kulmay nin shisheeye ah oo khatar ah.

Wax yar kadib, Cordoba, wuxuu la kulmay gabadh Jibsiyad ah. Shisheeyuhu wuxuu ahaa Don Jose, gabadhuna waxay ahayd Carmen.

Dhowr bilood kadib, Jose oo xabsiga ku jira oo sugaya in la deldelo ayaa aqoonyahanka u sheegay sida uu wax walba u lumiyay Carmen darteed.

Afarta cutub oo dhan, oo buuxa, turjumaad cusub oo Af-Soomaali ah.

Buuggan waxaa ku jira afarta cutub oo dhan oo buuxa. Cutubka afraad, qoraagu wuxuu kaga hadlayaa Jibsiyada Isbaanya iyo afkooda.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #2465 (Lady Mary Loyd’s English translation). Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 82 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover painting: Édouard Manet, Portrait of Émilie Ambre as Carmen, 1880 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).