Ethiopia

Books in this genre are set in or about Ethiopia.

Cutting for Stone
The Shadow King
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Sweetness in the Belly
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
Yes, Chef
Black Dove White Raven
Say You're One of Them
All Our Names
How to Read the Air

Abraham   Verghese
I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field—internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon.
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

Marc Secchia
You think!” cried Mama. “She’s just a-looking after your backside and mine.” But at least her arms let up. Shioni could breathe again. “It’d take five of her to look after your backside.” Mama seemed to find his rudeness amusing. A beaming smile lit up her round face like the sun leaping above the hills of Abyssinia in the morning. “Better a plump, well-padded rump, than the rear end of a skinny goat like you, eh?
Marc Secchia, The Enchanted Castle

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