The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste with Robin Miles (Narrator)

16 hours, 9 minutes first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging dark emotional slow-paced
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"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." ? Salman Rushdie In 1935, orphaned servant Hirut struggles to adapt to her new household as Ethiopia faces Mussolini's looming...

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