Goodreads (Print) Teret Teret Book Giveaway
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Goodreads (Print) Teret Teret Book Giveaway is a giveaway on Goodreads for the print edition of Teret Teret by Nafkote Tamirat. The novel opens with a childhood memory of a storyteller shouting “Teret Teret,” meaning “a tale, a tale,” and children responding “Yelam beret!” without knowing the phrase means “a cow’s house.” The story follows Belaynesh Tessema, an Ethiopian American journalist who works for the independent travel magazine Trivial Pursuits. When her boss orders her to travel to Washington, D.C., to cover a newly incorporated all‑Ethiopian town, she begins to experience strange lapses in memory and a loss of sense of place and time. Each morning she awakens on the same day—September 10, 2007, the last day of the Ethiopian calendar year and the day before the world is set to end. A talking parrot named Teret reveals a plan to un‑stick time, pulling Belaynesh into Ethiopian mythology. Central to the mythic journey is the mysterious Henok, the star of the apocryphal Book of Enoch, who is displeased by Belaynesh’s arrival and the disruptions it causes to his work on the book. As Belaynesh and Teret navigate fallen angels, time‑traveling giants, and encounters with Henok himself, the narrative explores how moving forward sometimes requires looking back.
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