EAN: 9781838851170

THE SHADOW KING - MAAZA MENGISTE KARTONIERT (TB)

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' Laila Lalami  'UNFORGETTABLE' The Times   'REMARKABLE' New York
Times     Ethiopia  1935.  With the threat of Mussolini's army looming  recently orphaned Hirut
struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer  Kidane  an officer in Emperor
Haile Selassie's army  rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade.  Hirut
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. But how could she have predicted her own personal
war  still to come  as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers?   The Shadow King is
a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power  and what it means to be a
woman at war.

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