Dertogada
| Author | Yismake Worku |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dertogada |
| Illustrator | |
| Language | Amharic |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Far east PLC |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 978-99944-843-1-7 Search this book on  . |
| Followed by | Ramatohara |
Dertogada(ዴርቶጋዳ) is a novel written by Ethiopian author Yismake Worku. The book has three sequels: Dertogada, Ramatohara and Xantoxara. Xantoxara was released in 2012.
Dertogada (We Never Hesitate) has thirty chapters within 272 pages. The book contains a poem of Lauriat Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin The passion of Peter.
Dertogada was first published in Ethiopia’s national language, Amharic in 2009 by a young person called Yismake Worku, 22 years old at the time of publication. The main characters are Shagiz Ejigu (Kitaw the real world Ethiopian scientist), Miraje, Zipporah, Meroda and Gera.
Yismake integrated local stories with international flavours making it a book suitable for readers of the globalised world. Apparently, it is now translated into English by Zelalem Nigussie making it available for international readership.
The story begins with a flashback. Amazingly constructed with arithmetic poem around Laurite Tsegaye Gebremedhin’s famous poem called the Passion of Peter, Dertogada requires the reader’s watchfulness, fusion and attention to detail. The plot of the book is an imbroglio in that it revolves around continents, various sequences and many causes and effects. You can also find many points of climax while reading the narrative thus keeping the reader intact to the action. Speaking about the theme of his book, Yismake in one of his recent interviews said,
| “ | Dertogada is the song of the Renaissance; Dertogada is about filling the generation gap; Dertogada is about searching ourselves, Dertogada is about working together for the common good; Dertogada is about love and promise; Dertogada is the picture of this time; Dertogada is about the need of social, political… revolution of Ethiopia, Dertogada is about brain… Dertogada is the song of freedom of this generation… For me, it is better to listen these all songs and keep silent. | ” |
A preface by Sebhat-Leab Gebre-Egziabher
In this sophisticated age of space exploration, Yismake Worku presented with a prime novel, adequately capable of deserving the eyes of all readers. Written with a flawless literature coupled with a magnanimous storytelling, it has a particular style that is unique only to the author. Chapter after chapter Dertogada takes you on a voyage overflowing with suspense. It does not stick to a single theme; rather it is a sum of many complicated stories. Action and breathtaking speed follows along, as we turn each page. It manifests all the characteristics of a science fiction, a romantic, an underground action, and a historical novel. In this sense, the novel has shown us intricate events with such interconnectedness as we have never realized before. It is a magnificent novel, which successfully bonded the past with the future. Aha! About this last point, here lies only one of the ideas, the book included. It is about the battle between achieving material or intellectual wealth. Moreover, it is a book about nationalism... about who will give away... what or who, for the sake of one's own advantages? And who shall fight, 'Until the last drop of blood,' for the sake of his/her identity? And etc... The rest is left for the reader to contemplate...
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