Maaza Mengiste has produced a work of fiction that is epic in reach, with brilliant borrowings from the forms of classic tragedy.
Norton
9780393358513
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Norton
9780393358513
Maaza Mengiste has produced a work of fiction that is epic in reach, with brilliant borrowings from the forms of classic tragedy.
At the center of Maaza Mengiste’s stunning second novel is Hirut, an Ethiopian servant girl who rises to become an important warrior in the Ethiopian struggle to expel would-be Italian conquerors under the dictator Benito Mussolini, whose army invaded the country in the 1930s.
One of the thrills of the story is to witness Hirut,…
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