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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838851170 | ISBN 10: 1838851178
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 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 ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789462380578 | ISBN 10: 9462380570
Muna, a young Indian orphan, is working in a carpet factory in Bombay. She cannot forget about her sister Sita, from whom she was separated. Sita, who lives in an orphanage in the same city, doesn’t remember her older sister and dreams about having a ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846972461 | ISBN 10: 1846972469
In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tank ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099521037 | ISBN 10: 0099521032
Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, Children of the Revolution, earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the Guardian First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in Amer ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539926 | ISBN 10: 0099539926
An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his m ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780349120645 | ISBN 10: 0349120641
'I see dirty water dripping down the white wall beside me. It is coming from the ceiling. At first, it comes down in two thin lines. The the lines widen and swell into one. Then two more lines come down, in spurts, like little spiders gliding down on ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099502739 | ISBN 10: 0099502739
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man caught between two existences: the one he left behind aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington DC. Sepha spends ... more
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