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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
ጠያይም መላእክት/ Black Angels: የኮምዩኒዝም ርኩ&#4661

ጠያይም መላእክት/ Black Angels: የኮምዩኒዝም ርኩስ

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General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798258799074
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: Afrikaans
In a crumbling mud house in Addis Ababa, a wall covered with Soviet propaganda posters, Marilyn Monroe photographs, and Derg-era newspapers holds three generations of secrets.

Chuni, a girl with big beautiful eyes, grows up fearing poverty, the dark, the rats, and the newspaper clippings that whisper unfinished stories... especially the ones that continue on page 6, a page she can never find. As Ethiopia lurches from Marxist revolution to civil war to fragile democracy, Chuni transforms herself into Jerus, a beauty pageant contestant who must destroy every trace of her former identity. But the wall remembers everything: the one-eyed artist forced to paint hammer-and-sickle over cross and saints; the elderly pottery maker accused of witchcraft; the smiling Russian soldier whose confidence remains a mystery.

The Black Angels is a magical realist epic about the Cold War's long shadow in the Global South, the violence of imposed ideologies, and one woman's desperate attempt to become her own storyteller. When the neighborhood is demolished for development, only a triangular scrap of mud wall remains... still speaking, still demanding to be heard.

This is the story of three generations of Ethiopia, told through a girl with large, expressive eyes who transforms from a child afraid of darkness, poverty, rats, and the newspaper-covered wall into a beauty pageant contestant. Her transformation requires destroying her past identity: old photos, childhood nicknames, neighborhood friends. She represents the commodified Ethiopian woman, and Ethiopia itself.

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