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The shadow king

Mengiste, Maaza (author.).

Summary: 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 exile and Ethiopia is about to lose hope, Hirut helps to disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor to keep the fight alive. She becomes his guard, inspiring women to join the war against fascism.

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  • ISBN: 9781838851170 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    428 pages : map ; 20 cm
  • Edition: Paperback edition.
  • Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2020.

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Originally published in hardcover: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, ©2019.

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Subject: Disguise Fiction
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 Fiction
Kings and rulers Fiction
Orphans Fiction
Photographers Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Ethiopia Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 Women Fiction
Ethiopia History 1889-1974 Fiction
Genre: War fiction.
Historical fiction.

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