In this novel, a young radical is unwillingly taking his dying nobleman father on a pilgrimage to an Ethiopian shrine by a mountain lake. The journey becomes not only a search for a cure, but also a last attempt to heal the breach between age and youth in their family. Their relationship is set against the background of the conflict between the ancient Christianity of Ethiopia and the superstition...
Daniachew Worku (1936-1994) was one of Ethiopia’s foremost modernist writers. Besides The Thirteenth Sun, he wrote several other novels, short stories, plays, and poetry. He also taught Amharic literature and drama at Addis Ababa University and was for a while the director of a publishing house. Another novel, Shout it from the Mountaintop, finished just before his death, will also be published soon by The Red Sea...
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