Maaza Mengiste, geboren 1971 in Addis Abeba, Äthiopien. Während der kommunistischen Revolution musste sie 1975 mit ihrer Familie Äthiopien verlassen, um in Nigeria, Kenia und schließlich in den USA zu leben. Sie studierte Creative Writing an der New York University, wo sie heute lehrt. Ihr viel beachteter Debüt Roman Unter den Augen des Löwen wurde in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt.
5 E-böcker av Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 – the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god …
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€8.99
Maaza Mengiste: Shadow King
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ELLE, TIME, SPECTATOR’DEVASTATING’ Marlon James, ’BRILLIANT’ Salman Rushdie, ’MAGNIFICENT’ Aminatta Forna, …
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€10.23
Maaza Mengiste: The Shadow King: A Novel
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Elle, Time, and more, The Shadow King is an “unforgettable epic from an immensely talented author …
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€10.99
Maaza Mengiste: Addis Ababa Noir (Akashic Noir)
Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony—until they don’t.
Maaza Mengiste’s story “Dust, Ash, Flight” has won the 2021 Edgar …
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€15.99
Maaza Mengiste: Addis Ababa Noir
What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It’s a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory. It is a heady …
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€15.59
