Novel
የቴዎድሮስ እንባ
Not translated into English
Berhanu Zerihun · 1966
Synopsis
የቴዎድሮስ እንባ (The Tears of Tewodros): in the middle of the nineteenth century, Emperor Tewodros II sets out to reunify and reform a fragmented Ethiopian empire. The novel follows this sovereign driven by a great vision of his country, whom the narrative raises to the rank of national hero, and shows the forces that resist him, the nobility and the clergy.
Context
Published in 1966 in Addis Ababa, by Berhanena Selam, the novel belongs to the fertile period running from the attempted coup of 1960 to the revolution of 1974. A thesis of Addis Ababa University judged it in 1980, with Warrior King, the best of the six narratives devoted to the emperor, the one that best illuminates the forces ranged against him, and noted that reformers opposed to the regime of Haile Selassie then identified with Tewodros. Anteneh Aweke counts it among the notable Amharic novels of the post-war period.
Who it is for
For discovering, in Amharic and without translation, a major historical novel of the era of Haile Selassie.
Prizes and reception
Tewodros Gebre ranks it among the most esteemed works of the Amharic literature of its time.
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