TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mengiste,Maaza
TI  - The shadow king: a novel 
SN  - 9780393083569
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Women
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - History
KW  - 1889-1974
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - War fiction
N2  - "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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