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The conscript : a novel of Libya's anticolonial war / by Gebreyesus Hailu ; translated from the Tigrinya by Ghirmai Negash ; introduction by Laura Chrisman.

Title
The conscript : a novel of Libya's anticolonial war / by Gebreyesus Hailu ; translated from the Tigrinya by Ghirmai Negash ; introduction by Laura Chrisman.
Author
Hailu, Gebreyesus, 1906-1993.
Publication
Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Negash, Ghirmai
  • Chrisman, Laura
Description
59 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Modern African writing
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Modern African writing
Subject
  • 1912-1951
  • Eritreans > Libya > Fiction
  • Draftees > Eritrea > Fiction
  • Italy > Colonies > History, Military > Africa > Fiction
  • Libya > History > 1912-1951 > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Military history
  • Novels
  • Fiction.
  • History.
  • Military history.
  • War stories
Note
  • "First edition (in Tigrinya), Pietro Silla Printing Press, Asmara ([1927], 1950)."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction by Laura Chrisman -- Preface to the Tigrinya edition -- A portrait of youth -- The departure from Asmara -- Deep in the wilderness -- The thirst of death.
ISBN
  • 9780821420232 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 9780821444450 (electronic)
LCCN
^^2012040505
OCLC
  • 824727155
  • SCSB-12451673
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library