Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't.
Several of the 14 stories here, most of them striking and accomplished, involve post-revolution loss, guilt and revenge.
Some are surreal--fitting for a culture where, as Mengiste writes in her introduction, 'there are men who live in the mountains of Ethiopia and can turn into hyenas.
' -- Washington Post Addis is one of Africa's--and th.
Akashic Books Addis ababa noir, hardcover/maaza mengiste
