The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu, The Conscript.
This novel -- written in 1927, and first published in 1950, and now available in English translation from Ohio University Press in their Modern African Writing series -- is the first work written in Tigrinya under review at the complete review. Somehow I doubt there will be (m)any more -- not for want of trying, but for want of translations: I have hard enough a time finding anything translated from Amharic, much less Tigrinya .....
This novel -- written in 1927, and first published in 1950, and now available in English translation from Ohio University Press in their Modern African Writing series -- is the first work written in Tigrinya under review at the complete review. Somehow I doubt there will be (m)any more -- not for want of trying, but for want of translations: I have hard enough a time finding anything translated from Amharic, much less Tigrinya .....