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The Wife's Tale - A Personal History (Paperback)
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The Wife's Tale - A Personal History (Paperback)
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List price R356
Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
You Save R106 (30%)
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WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable
95-year-old woman - and of the most extraordinary century in
Ethiopia's history. A new Wild Swans 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. She introduces us to a rich cast of characters -
emperors and empresses, scholars and nuns, Marxist revolutionaries
and wartime double agents. And through these encounters she takes
us deep into the landscape and culture of this many-layered, often
mis-characterised country - and the heart of one indomitable woman.
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