The Shadow King

by Maaza Mengiste

Book Overview

With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039308356X
• ISBN13: 9780393083569
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"