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Bibliographic Information
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The shadow king : a novel
First edition.
- Author
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Mengiste, Maaza,
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company,
- Pub date:
- [2019]
- Pages:
- 428 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9780393083569
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult fiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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The shadow king : a novel
First edition.
Mengiste, Maaza,
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Personal Author:
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Mengiste, Maaza,
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Title:
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The shadow king : a novel / Maaza Mengiste.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Summary:
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"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
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Summary:
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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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Conference Subject:
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World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
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Subject term:
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Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936--Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ethiopia--Fiction.
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / Historical / World War II.
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FICTION / War & Military.
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Subject term:
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Geographic term:
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Ethiopia--History--1889-1974--Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Ethiopia. fast (OCoLC)fst01205830