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Maaza Mengiste

The Shadow King: A Novel

By Maaza Mengiste - Published 2019

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Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King begins after Benito Mussolini’s second invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, when a Fascist army armed with tanks ...Read Review

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze

By Maaza Mengiste - Published 2010

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Saga

1974, and Ethiopia is on the verge of revolution. Peasants starve in the drought-stricken countryside, while Emperor Haile Selassie remains sequestered in his palace, ...Read Review

Maaza Mengiste

The Shadow King: A Novel

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze

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