Title The shadow king : a novel / Maaza Mengiste.

Publication Info.

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	F MENGISTE, M.	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction	FICTION MENGISTE	Check Shelf
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	F MENGISTE, M.	Storage
Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction	F MENGISTE	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Adult Department	FICTION MENGISTE	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level	FICTION MENGISTE	Check Shelf
Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department	FIC MENGISTE	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	F MENGISTE c.2	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	FIC MENG	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	F MENGISTE	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary	"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
	With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid to Kidane and his wife Aster. 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 cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and rage. As the war begins in earnest, the Emperor goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope. Hirut helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians. -- adapted from jacket.
Subject	Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 -- Fiction.
	Ethiopia -- History -- 1889-1974 -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Ethiopia -- Fiction.
	FICTION / Literary.
	FICTION / Historical / World War II.
	FICTION / War & Military.
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Ethiopia. (OCoLC)fst01205830
Chronological Term	1939-1945
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Historical fiction.
	War stories.
	Historical fiction.
	War fiction.
ISBN	9780393083569 hardcover
	039308356X hardcover

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