The wife's tale : a personal history
Aida Edemariam2018
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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. In prose steeped in Yetemegnu's distinctive voice and point of view, Aida Edemariam retells her grandmother's stories of a childhood surrounded by proud priests and soldiers, of her husband's imprisonment, of her fight for justice - all of it played out against an ancient cycle of festivals and the rhythms of the seasons.
Main title:
The wife's tale : a personal history / Aida Edemariam.
Author:
Aida Edemariam, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2018.
Collation:
xi, 314 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780007459605 (hbk)
Dewey class:
963.05092
Language:
English
BRN:
1806315
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