The shadow king : a novel / Maaza Mengiste.
With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster’s household. 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 a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. Meanwhile, Mussolini’s technologically advanced army prepares for an easy victory. Hundreds of thousands of Italians ―Jewish photographer Ettore among them― march on Ethiopia seeking adventure. As the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians. But how could she have predicted her own personal war as a prisoner of one of Italy’s most vicious officers, who will force her to pose before Ettore’s camera? What follows is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, with Hirut as the fierce, original, and brilliant voice at its heart. In incandescent, lyrical prose, Maaza Mengiste breathes life into complicated characters on both sides of the battle line, shaping a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393083569
- ISBN: 039308356X
- ISBN: 9780393358513
- Physical Description: 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Ethiopia > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. War stories. Historical fiction. War fiction. |
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- 25 of 25 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Albright Memorial Library | FICTION MENGIST (Text) | 50686015547685 | Storage | Available | - |
Albright Memorial Library | FICTION MENGIST (Text) | 50686015638120 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | F MEN (Text) | 37268003072261 | AHMFL Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | F MEN (Text) | 33240004925163 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Boyertown Community Library | MEN (Text) | 33249024105656 | Fiction | Available | - |
Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults MEN Fiction (Text) | 34001001362720 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | FIC MENGISTE, MAAZA (Text) | 36446002064197 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | F MEN (Text) | 30298100553639 | Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction Mengiste (Text) | 39427103464038 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | FIC MEN (Text) | 33400001458358 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mansfield Free Public Library | FIC MEN (Text) | 31422556 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults MEN Fiction (Text) | 33454005742473 | Reading Room Balcony | Available | - |
Mifflin Community Library | MEN (Text) | 33249024008363 | Fiction | Available | - |
New Oxford Library | HIST FIC MENGISTE MAAZA (Text) | 35740635529548 | Historical Fiction | Available | - |
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County | Adults MEN Fiction (Text) | 34318001156229 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Pottsville Free Public Library | FIC (Text) | 30003008950501 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Reading Public Library RPL - Main | Fiction Mengiste (Text) | 33223008476920 | Fiction | Available | - |
Shenandoah Area Free Public Library | FIC MEN (Text) | 3SFPL00004909S | Fiction | Available | - |
Sinking Spring Library | MEN (Text) | 33249023668936 | Fiction | Available | - |
Allentown Public Library | MENGISTE, MAAZA (Text) | 34455006613430 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Barrett Paradise Friendly Library | F Men (Text) | 37171000010443 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009211732 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem South Side Branch | f (Text) | 33062009247678 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Clymer Library | FIC Men (Text) | 32596000436500 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | MENGISTE (Text) | 31901004366417 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |