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In 1935, as Mussolini's army invades Ethiopia, Hirut, an orphaned servant girl, joins the women who fight, and helps disguise a peasant as the emperor Haile Selassie.
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Afterlives
In a small town on the East African coast early in the twentieth century, Ilyas, taken from his parents as a boy by the German colonial troops, comes home, and Hamza, a young man who enlisted in the same army, goes off to the First World War.
The Garden of Evening Mists
Yun Ling Teoh, a judge who survived a Japanese labour camp, goes up to the Cameron Highlands in 1951 to ask Aritomo, once gardener to the Emperor of Japan, to make a garden in memory of her sister.
The Gift of Rain
Philip Hutton, the half-English son of a Penang trading family, becomes the pupil of Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat, in the years before the Japanese invasion of Malaya.
Regeneration
In 1917 the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a decorated officer who has publicly refused to go on fighting, is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh to be treated by the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers.
Sacred Hunger
In 1752 a Liverpool merchant builds a slave ship, the Liverpool Merchant, and his nephew Matthew Paris, a doctor ruined by scandal, goes aboard as its surgeon.
Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
God's Bits of Wood
In 1947 and 1948 the African workers on the Dakar to Niger railway go on strike against their French employers, and the women of their towns hold the strike together.
Desert
Two stories braided together: the Blue Men of the Sahara driven north by French colonial troops in 1909 and 1910, and Lalla, a girl descended from them, growing up decades later in a shantytown on the Moroccan coast.
Bring Larks and Heroes
Corporal Phelim Halloran, an Irish marine in the penal colony of New South Wales in the late eighteenth century, loves a convict servant girl and is drawn into a plot by Irish convicts.
Highways to a War
Mike Langford, an Australian combat photographer, disappears in Cambodia in 1976, and his oldest friend pieces his story together from the tapes he left behind.
The War of the End of the World
In the backlands of northeastern Brazil in the 1890s, a preacher known as the Counsellor gathers thousands of the poor at Canudos, and the new republic sends its army against them.
Martha Quest
Martha Quest, a restless, bookish girl on a farm in British Central Africa in the 1930s, leaves for the colonial town to find a life of her own.