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(Paperback, Main)

By: Maaza Mengiste

ISBN: 9781838851170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2020
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020, this is an utterly captivating novel about female strength. Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the women soldiers written out of African history.


(Paperback)

By: Maaza Mengiste

ISBN: 9780099539926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country.


(Hardback)

By: Maaza Mengiste

ISBN: 9781617759529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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"Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't." --


(Paperback)

By: Maaza Mengiste

ISBN: 9781617758201
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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Award-winning novelist Mengiste artfully ushers the City of Humans, Ethiopia's bustling capital, into the Noir Series arena.