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abesheet

abesheet

I've been a member of the british council since i was so high *shows* :-) so i'm more into British writers than cheap commercialized american garbage (otherwise known as "american literature" :-)). Nothing more I'd have loved than sharing and discussing the amharic books i read in hundreds (that's the national language of Ethiopia; a country of... more »
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • member since November 14 2007

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  • A Man of the People
    • Rated 4 stars

    “[a href="http://abesheet.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/achebes-the-king-is-naked"]Achebe's "The King is naked"[/a]”

    abesheet wrote this review Thursday, September 25 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Crime and Punishment
    • Rated 3 stars

    “You can read my review of this book on http://abesheet.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/his-crime-my-punishment/”

    abesheet wrote this review Thursday, September 25 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Thorn Birds
    • Rated 0 stars

    “This book had me foaming by the mouth when in my early 20s :-). Can't really say how it would impress me now. Would probably sound a little too gay (like every one of Kahlil Gibran's books are sounding these days, also a teenage idol, and half of the letters in the New Testament).”

    abesheet wrote this review Thursday, November 15 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The God of Small Things
    • Rated 5 stars

    “This one of the three great books I've read with a rather obvious "romance" theme but a perfectly different [a political] agenda.
    (i'll put that in a better shape, I promise).

    "The God of Small things" by A. Roy (colonization and its effect, Caste System, the loss of one's identity)

    "Fiqir Eske Meqabir" (translated as "Love unto Crypt") by the great legendary Ethiopian writer and diplomat, Dr. Haddis Alemayehu (social classifications and their problems)

    "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Michelle (a longing for the old south and it's ways that got lost through ignorance and manipulation)”

    abesheet wrote this review Thursday, November 15 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Unheard Voices: Drought, Famine and God in Ethiopian Oral Poetry
    • Rated 0 stars

    “You can't capture the beauty and the poetry of the amharic [languge] spoken in these parts of ethiopia with even the amharic spoken in the cities, let alone a foreign language. But then no translation would have been valid. Which is why I respect Fekade for trying. 3 for his efforts.”

    abesheet wrote this review Thursday, November 15 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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