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001			on1084322904
003			OCoLC
005			20191003141333.0
008			190426s2019 nyua e 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019020502
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019			_a1117339506
020			_a9780393083569 _qhardcover
020			_a039308356X _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1084322904 _z(OCoLC)1117339506
042			_apcc
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092			_aMengiste _bMaaza
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMengiste, Maaza, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe shadow king : _ba novel / _cMaaza Mengiste.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2019]
300			_a428 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
520			_aWith 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
650		0	_aItalo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 _vFiction. _9107688
651		0	_aEthiopia _xHistory _y1889-1974 _vFiction. _9270750
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xWomen _vFiction. _964630
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCampaigns _zEthiopia _vFiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aWar fiction. _2lcgft _9282297
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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