Aida Edemariam
The wife's tale : a personal history Aida Edemariam - London : 4th Estate, c2019. - xiii, 314 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
In about 1916, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Over the next century a feudal empress gave way to an all-powerful emperor, Mussolini invaded, the Allies bombed the streets of her childhood. Empire was swept away by revolution, and then by civil war -- and through it, all she raised a family, laughed with them and then fought for them, through cities and law courts, and ultimately before Emperor Hail S̈elassie himself. The Wife's Tale is an intimate biography of a rich, often misunderstood country, and of a quietly heroic life.
9780007459629
Aida Edemariam--Family
Women--Social conditions--Ethiopia
Women--Biography--Ethiopia--History--1889-1974--Ethiopia
963.043092 AI WI
The wife's tale : a personal history Aida Edemariam - London : 4th Estate, c2019. - xiii, 314 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
In about 1916, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Over the next century a feudal empress gave way to an all-powerful emperor, Mussolini invaded, the Allies bombed the streets of her childhood. Empire was swept away by revolution, and then by civil war -- and through it, all she raised a family, laughed with them and then fought for them, through cities and law courts, and ultimately before Emperor Hail S̈elassie himself. The Wife's Tale is an intimate biography of a rich, often misunderstood country, and of a quietly heroic life.
9780007459629
Aida Edemariam--Family
Women--Social conditions--Ethiopia
Women--Biography--Ethiopia--History--1889-1974--Ethiopia
963.043092 AI WI