Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the women soldiers written out of African history. “I had published a novel, so when I started this one, I thought I knew how to write a novel,” she says wryly during a call to her home in Queens, New York. This one-page guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of The King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder. Stevenson lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A wonderful book. King of Shadows by Susan Cooper is a historical fiction novel describing a young actor’s travels to the year 1599. An utterly captivating novel about female strength. The Shadow King is a novel about war and history, both epic in scope and intimate in detail…Maaza Mengiste has a gift for rendering everyone in this story, resister and invader alike, with great nuance and complexity, leaving us with no room for easy judgment.
She teaches literature and history at the University of Aberdeen. Nat Field is a young boy from Falmouth, Massachusetts.
He loves acting and is traveling to London with an elite all-boys troupe to perform in a newly erected theater just like the one Shakespeare used.
The Shadow King is a novel about war and history, both epic in scope and intimate in detail…Maaza Mengiste has a gift for rendering everyone in this story, resister and invader alike, with great nuance and complexity, leaving us with no room for easy judgment. A gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record.
A wonderful book. A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction A gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record.
A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction A gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record., The Shadow King, A Novel, Maaza Mengiste, 9780393083569 Lydia Kakwera Levy.
Not only does The Shadow King shine a light on an overlooked chapter of history, but it’s also received glowing reviews from The New York Times and blurbs from prominent authors such as Salman Rushdie, who described the book as a “brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth.”
Four years into the nine-year marathon that would result in The Shadow King, Ethiopian-American novelist Maaza Mengiste’s stunning second novel about the 1935 Italian Fascist invasion of Ethiopia, the author hit a wall. Published in 1995, Elizabeth Alder’s The King’s Shadow is a historical novel aimed at an older middle school or younger high school readership. 4 stars out of 5. An action-filled historical novel by Ethiopian American writer Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, 2010).The Italians who invaded Ethiopia in 1935 under the orders of the man whom the conquered people insist on calling, in quiet resistance, Mussoloni came aching to avenge a loss they had suffered 40 years earlier. She is the author of Several Deceptions, a collection of four novellas; a novel, London Bridges; and the acclaimed historical trilogy made up of the novels The Winter Queen, The Shadow King, and The Empress of the Last Days. The Shadow King A Novel The shadow king : a novel / Maaza Mengiste: title_short: The shadow king: title_sub: A Novel: topic_facet: Campaigns FICTION / Historical / World War II FICTION / Literary FICTION / War & Military Fiction Historical Fiction History Household employees Impostors and imposture Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 14 Apr 2020 "A compelling look at the Italo–Ethiopian war of 1935" 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.