The Lost Spell ክቡር ድንጋይ by Yismake Worku , Bethlehem Attfield

The Lost Spell ክቡር ድንጋይ by Yismake Worku, Bethlehem Attfield

Didimus Dore, a proud, respectable businessman from Addis Ababa, has turned himself into a dog. Unable to remember the spell that will turn him back again, he finds refuge with a German woman working on a Chinese engineering project. Stripped of his status and language, he takes the road home to Addis, back to his wife and children, to find the spell.

As he travels fearfully through the towns along the way, he sees Ethiopian history and politics from a new perspective. He struggles to keep himself at the centre of his world, despite his new reality. Worku is renowned as a brilliant and influential young Ethiopian novelist. Bethlehem Attfield’s translation of The Lost Spell gives us a glimpse of a contemporary novelist redefining political satire within a radically different psychogeography.