Shadow king

By:

Mengiste, Maaza

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Canongate Great Britain 2020Description: 429pISBN:

9780393083569

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

813.6 MEN

Summary: The book tells the story of Hirut, a young Ethiopian woman who goes from lowly servant to proud warrior. She begins the novel as an orphan who works alongside an unnamed cook in the household of a man named Kidane and his wife, Aster. The book leverages its historical details to uncover new ways of thinking about how people arrange their inner worlds in order to preserve a sense of self.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Jammu General Stacks	Fiction	813.6 MEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMJ-7071

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The book tells the story of Hirut, a young Ethiopian woman who goes from lowly servant to proud warrior. She begins the novel as an orphan who works alongside an unnamed cook in the household of a man named Kidane and his wife, Aster. The book leverages its historical details to uncover new ways of thinking about how people arrange their inner worlds in order to preserve a sense of self.

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