Book Event - Oromay
Sat, Mar 29
|Sankofa Video Books and Cafe
Join us for a a live reading fof Oromay by Bealu Girma followed by a one-on-one discussion with Naomi Gizaw and Meskerem Baalu (Baalu Girma’s daughter), exploring the emotional and political layers of this engrossing novel - themes of love, loss, and the personal toll of war.
Time & Location
Mar 29, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video Books and Cafe , 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
About The Event
About the Book
A journalist finds himself embroiled in a disastrous government campaign as well as a sweeping romance in this landmark English translation of Ethiopia’s most famous novel.
An engrossing political thriller and a tale of love and war for readers of John Le Carré and Philip Kerr.December 1981, Ethiopia. Tsegaye Hailemaryam, a well-known journalist for the state-run media, has just landed in Asmara. He is on assignment as the head of propaganda for the Red Star campaign, a massive effort by the Ethiopian government to end the Eritrean insurgency. There, amid the city’s bars and coffeehouses buzzing with spies and government agents, he juggles the demands of his superiors while trying to reassure his fiancée back home that he’s not straying with Asmara’s famed beauties.
As Tsegaye falls in love with Asmara—and, in spite of his promises, with dazzling, enigmatic local woman Fiammetta—his misgivings about the campaign grow. Tsegaye confronts…
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