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BOOK
Title The wife's tale : a personal history / Aida Edemariam
Imprint London, England : 4th Estate, 2019
©2018

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Limhamn:Vuxen Facklitteratur (900-999)  963 Edemariam engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 314 pages : map, ill. ; 20 cm
Note Originally published: 2018
A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over the next century her world changed beyond recognition. She witnessed Fascist invasion and occupation, Allied bombardment and exile from her city, the ascent and fall of Emperor Haile Selassie, revolution and civil war. She endured all these things alongside parenthood, widowhood and the death of children. The Wife's Tale is an intimate memoir, both of a life and of a country
Subject Aida Edemariam -- Family
Since 1889
Families.
Familjer
Ethiopia -- History -- 1889-1974
Ethiopia -- History -- 1974-
Etiopien -- historia
Biografi
Classmark 963.05092
ISBN/ISSN 9780007459629 (pbk.)
0007459629 (pbk.)
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