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The shadow king : a novel / Maaza Mengiste.

Mengiste, Maaza, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780393083569
  • ISBN: 039308356X
  • Physical Description: 428 pages : map, portrait ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]

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Summary, etc.:
"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid to Kidane and his wife Aster. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and rage. As the war begins in earnest, the Emperor goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope. Hirut helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians. -- adapted from jacket

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Subject: Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 > Fiction.
Ethiopia > History > 1889-1974 > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Ethiopia > Fiction.
Genre: War stories.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at GRPL.

Holds

0 current holds with 4 total copies.

Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Madison Square Fiction Mengiste (Text) 31307024005045 Fiction Available -
Main Fiction Mengiste (Text) 31307024005078 Fiction Available -
Ottawa Hills Fiction Mengiste (Text) 31307024005052 Fiction Available -
Westside Fiction Mengiste (Text) 31307024005060 Fiction Available -
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