Saba: Under the Hyena’s Foot

Author(s): Jane Kurtz

Location(s): Gondar

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1840s

After being kidnapped and brought to the emperor’s palace in Gondar, Ethiopia, twelve-year-old Saba discovers that she and her brother are part of the emperor’s desperate attempt to consolidate political power in the mid-1840s. Simultaneous.

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