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Paperback The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War Book

ISBN: 0821420232

ISBN13: 9780821420232

The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War

Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the...

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