In 1954, a young Indian nun working at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa dies while giving birth to identical twins. Their father, a well-respected British surgeon, disappears, abandoning the boys. Fortunately for the twins, the two doctors who deliver them become their loving, adoptive parents.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
This big, bittersweet, beautifully written novel, set mostly around the hospital, follows the family’s fortunes over five decades. As the boys come of age, Ethiopia’s turbulent politics – executions, rebellions, coups – play out sometimes on the periphery of their personal story and sometimes at its very centre.
The “elder” twin, Marion, narrates the tale, at the heart of which is an act of betrayal that breaks the strong bond between him and his brother Shiva.
When political events take a dangerous turn, forcing Marion to flee to New York, he finds himself becoming entangled with his past and forced to come to terms with it.
Verghese, an acute observer, vividly evokes life at the hospital and in the bustling capital.He delivers a page-turning, emotionally absorbing tale – despite a surfeit of medical detail (the book’s title is a phrase from the Hippocratic oath).
The Ethiopian-born author is a doctor who lives, writes and teaches medicine in the US. This, his first novel, has sold more than a million copies.
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Mengiste’s novel of the early years of Ethiopia’s revolution begins in 1974 as student demonstrations and famine lead to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie by the military. She creates an intimate portrait of an extended family, and it is through their eyes that we see the revolution unfolding – and descending into chaos and brutality.
Hailu, a respected surgeon in Addis Ababa, and his elder son Yonas, a university professor, prefer to keep their distance from Ethiopia’s violent and dangerous politics. But the younger son, Dawit, is determined to be politically active. Initially, he is a student protestor against the emperor and supports the Marxist junta. Later, when the military begins to crush dissent and sow terror, he becomes a brave and dogged opponent of the regime. Dawit recalls his mother telling him that “hope can never come from doing nothing”.
When the military forces Hailu to treat a young woman who has been horrifically tortured, a decision he makes causes him and his family to be swept up in the political storm.
This compassionate, tightly woven tale immediately draws the reader into its unfurling domestic and political drama. It’s an impressive literary debut.
Mengiste’s family left Ethiopia when she was a child; she now lives in the US.
Notes From the Hyena’s Belly by Nega Mezlekia
Roadhog hog 4 midi controller issues. Mezlekia’s powerful and poignant memoir recounts his coming of age in the turbulent decades straddling the ousting of Haile Selassie.
Born in Jijiga, a city where Amhara Christians and ethnic Somali Muslims live in “a multicultural mixing bowl”, he has fond recollections of family life and early schooldays. However, the best of times in childhood is followed by the worst of times in adolescence as Ethiopia endures famine, civil war, repression and war with neighbouring Somalia.
As his political awareness grows, Mezlekia joins student protests calling for land reform. But the struggle is to be “long and treacherous”. His first spell in prison, where torture is routine, is at 14 – followed by many more.
In 1977-78, the Marxist military rulers unleash their “Red Terror”, leaving 100,000 young people dead in the carnage. With “the revolution eating Ethiopia’s children at an alarming rate”, Mezlekia, at 18, joins an armed rebel group. Ethnic tensions within the group eventually force him to leave, and he slips back into civilian life.
Despite the harsh realities, Mezlekia tells his story – and the story of his country – with wry humour, interspersing facts with folktales. It’s a gripping insider’s insight into contemporary Ethiopia.
Both his father and his beloved Mam meet violent deaths. Miraculously Mezlekia survives, leaving Ethiopia for Europe and then Canada, where he lives today.
Fiction and non-fiction books set completely or at least partially in Ethiopia.
For more books about this country and others, see the Around the World in 80 Days Group: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5..
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The outer cover of the books presented on the internet is amazing. We are invited to read,but all folders are locked this is more amazing.
Thanks a lot for ur trial to motivate people to read books. When I see those books I was salivating to turn from pages to pages but it is not accessable. Please as much as possible let us read those books or tell us if there is any other website which let us.
Melody wrote: 'Where can I purchase these books?' Dear Melody, If you inbox me I could even perhaps send you some of the listed. Just paying forward. Best, Martha
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Tadesse wrote: 'Thanks a lot for ur trial to motivate people to read books. When I see those books I was salivating to turn from pages to pages but it is not accessable. Please as much as possible let us read thos..' Dear Tadesse, Good reads is a website for books that you read, would like to read in the future and to know what titles are there on a specific topic you might be interested in. It keeps them cataloged if stated shortly. To help you with your question. Try the below links for books to read. For Christian Amharic Books; http://www.operationezra.com/free-amh.. For poetry books https://henokspad.wordpress.com/2012/.. For Amharic books of different genre http://www.good-amharic-books.com/ Hope this helps, Martha
Endalamaw wrote: 'where I can get these books here in Ethiopia?' Different bookstores in Addis Ababa and other towns of Ethiopia have most of these books.
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this is my best questions how to download those amharic fiction books
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Melody wrote: 'Where can I purchase these books?' www.liktera.com
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you can find most of these books in www.liktera.com an online and offline book selling platform you can find in Ethiopia! Just Register and add the books you want to order and we deliver to the nearest location of whereabouts.
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It's slightly tedious to set up, and you have to go through a few options in game to prepare the battle for you and your friends, but it's well worth it to charge the field alongside your buddies. Bannerlord co op campaign. They can't roam the map with you or anything, but they can play as a troop in your army (I dedicated a companion to my friend, so that he could equip the character with armor and choose skill points). There's even options to switch to another troop in your army upon death, so that's a nice addition as well.
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