The Shadow King: A Novel
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Mengiste, Maaza Author
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W. W. Norton & Company , 2019.
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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.
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Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
09/24/2019
Language
English
ISBN
9780393651096
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mengiste, M. (2019). The Shadow King: A Novel . W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mengiste, Maaza. 2019. The Shadow King: A Novel. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mengiste, Maaza. The Shadow King: A Novel W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Mengiste, M. (2019). The shadow king: a novel. W. W. Norton & Company.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mengiste, Maaza. The Shadow King: A Novel W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
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