Eritrea

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Post any books set in Eritrea here.

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Books set in Eritrea:


Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey by Senait G. Mehari
Eritrea: Even the Stones Are Burning by Roy Pateman
Eritrea: A Pawn in World Politics by Okbazghi Yohannes
My Fathers' Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging by Hannah Pool
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
To Asmara a Novel of Africa by Thomas Keneally
An African Treasure: A True Story from the Horn of Africa by Ed White
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
Who Needs a Story Contemporary Eritrean Poetry by Ghirmai Negash
Blood, Land, and Sex: Legal and Political Pluralism in Eritrea by Lyda Favali
Three Eritrean Plays by Musgun Zerai
Eccentric Graces: Eritrea and Ethiopia Through the Eyes of a Traveler by Julia Stewart
A Painful Season A Stubborn Hope by Abeba Tesfagiorgis
We Invented the Wheel by Reesom Haile
Two Weeks in the Trenches: Reminiscences of Childhood by Alemseged Tesfai
Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa by Justin Hill

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Song of the Nightingale: One Woman's Dramatic Story of Faith and Persecution in Eritrea by Helen Berhane

[Ian]

by Nadifa Mohamed. Also Yemen, Djibouti and Somalia, but mostly in Eritrea.

[Susan]

Before She Breaks My Heart by Rahel Asgedom

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Eunuch by Len Lustgarten

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

More books set in Eritrea:


Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War by Tekeste Negash
El Nino by Christian Perrisin
Ninety-Three Days: A Journey to Freedom by Emilio De Luigi
No One's Son: The Story of a Defiant Ethiopian Boy and His Bold Quest for Freedom
Oromai by Be'alu Girma

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

More books set in Eritrea:


Amedeo: The True Story of an Italian’s War in Abyssinia by Sebastian O'Kelly
Borderlines by Michela Wrong
The Devil in God's Land: An Eritrean Play by Bereket Habte Selassie
The Good Italian by Stephen Burke
Gratitude in Low Voices: A Memoir by Dawit Gebremichael Habte
Joining Africa: From Anthills to Asmara by Charles Cantalupo
The Medusa Stone by Jack Du Brul (3rd book in Philip Mercer series)
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Throwing Stones At God by Michelle Flatley
Trouble by Jane Kurtz
Under the Red Sea Sun by Edward Ellsberg
The Various Flavours Of Coffee by Anthony Capella
War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry by Charles Cantalupo
We Have Our Voice: Selected Poems of Reesom Haile by Reesom Haile
Where War Was. Poems and Translations from Eritrea by Charles Cantalupo

[Rainbowheart]

Abandonment