Oromay Audiobook By Baalu Girma, Mesfin Felleke Yirgu -translator, David DeGusta -translator cover art

Oromay

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Oromay

By: Baalu Girma, Mesfin Felleke Yirgu -translator, David DeGusta -translator
Narrated by: Beru Tessema
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December 1981, Ethiopia. Tsegaye Hailemaryam, a well-known journalist for the state-run media, has just landed in Asmara. He is on assignment as the head of propaganda for the Red Star campaign, a massive effort by the Ethiopian government to end the Eritrean insurgency. There, amid the city's bars and coffeehouses buzzing with spies and government agents, he juggles the demands of his superiors while trying to reassure his fiancée back home that he's not straying with Asmara's famed beauties.

As Tsegaye falls in love with Asmara—and, in spite of his promises, with dazzling, enigmatic local woman Fiammetta—his misgivings about the campaign grow. Tsegaye confronts the horror of war when he is sent with an elite army unit to attack the insurgents' mountain stronghold. In the aftermath, he encounters betrayals that shake his faith in both the regime and human nature.

Oromay became an instant sensation when first published in 1983 and was swiftly banned for its frank depiction of the regime. The author vanished soon thereafter; the consensus is that he was murdered in retaliation for Oromay. A sweeping and timeless story about power and betrayal in love and war, the novel remains Girma's masterpiece.

©1983 Baalu Girma Foundation, Inc.; English translation copyright 2025 by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu (P)2025 Highbridge Audio
Espionage Genre Fiction Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense World Literature War
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