Maaza Mengiste - Böcker

  Etiopien, 1935. Med hotet om Mussolinis styrkors antågande hängande över dalen försöker Hirut, som nyligen förlorat sina föräldrar, anpassa sig till livet som barnflicka hos Kidane, som är officer i kejsare Haile Selassies armé. Han är i fu...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ELLE, TIME, SPECTATOR 'DEVASTATING' Marlon James, 'BRILLIANT' Salman Rushdie, 'MAGNIFICENT' Aminatta Forna, 'WONDERFUL&apo...

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The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - 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 h...

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This memorable, heartbreaking story 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. His father, Hai...

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In 1935, orphaned servant Hirut struggles to adapt to her new household as Ethiopia faces Mussolini's looming invasion. As the battles begin in earnest, Hirut and other women must care for the wounded. But when Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exi...

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This memorable, heartbreaking story 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. His father, Hai...

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Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record. At its heart is orphaned maid Hirut, who fi...

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The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow KingAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - 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 fam...

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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."e;Several of the 14 stories here, most of them striking and accomplished, involve post-revolution loss, guilt and r...

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Editor Maaza Mengiste's debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was published by Norton and was selected as a best book by several publications, including the Guardian and the Boston Globe. The novel was also a finalist for an NAACP Image Award and ...

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What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. Its a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory. It is a heady mix. It can also be disorienting, and it is in this ...

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»Mit Mengiste beginnt in der Literatur eine neue Zeitrechnung.« Zoë Beck Als Mussolini 1935 in Äthiopien einfällt, trifft er auf einen unerwarteten Widerstand: Krankenpflegerinnen, Köchinnen, Dienstmägde. Bereit, sich mit ihren Brüdern und Vätern ...

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»Mit Mengiste beginnt in der Literatur eine neue Zeitrechnung.« Zoë BeckAls Mussolini 1935 in ÿthiopien einfÿllt, trifft er auf einen unerwarteten Widerstand: Krankenpflegerinnen, Köchinnen, Dienstmÿgde. Bereit, sich mit ihren Brüdern und ...

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"e;Unter den Augen des Lowen"e; erzahlt am Beispiel einer Familie die blutigen Umbruche im Athiopien der 1970er Jahre. Whrend Hungersnte den Norden des Landes heimsuchen, wchst in der Landeshauptstadt Addis Abeba der Widerstand gegen den a...

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Etiopien, 1935. Med hotet om Mussolinis styrkors antågande hängande över dalen försöker Hirut, som nyligen förlorat sina föräldrar, anpassa sig till livet som barnflicka hos Kidane, som är officer i kejsar Haile Selassies armé. Han är i full färd ...

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Etiopien, 1935. Med hotet om Mussolinis styrkors antågande hängande över dalen försöker Hirut, som nyligen förlorat sina föräldrar, anpassa sig till livet som barnflicka hos Kidane, som är officer i kejsar Haile Selassies armé. Han är i full färd ...

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Vahva lukuromaani Etiopian sodasta ja orpotytön rohkeudesta. Nuori Hirut sinnittelee piikana armeijan upseerin taloudessa. Kun Mussolinin joukot saapuvat maahan vuonna 1935, myös naiset osallistuvat taisteluihin. Hallitsija Haile Selassien joutues...

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Vahva lukuromaani Etiopian sodasta ja orpotytön rohkeudesta. Nuori Hirut sinnittelee piikana armeijan upseerin taloudessa. Kun Mussolinin joukot saapuvat maahan vuonna 1935, myös naiset osallistuvat taisteluihin. Hallitsija Haile Selassien joutues...

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