An Ethiopian Short Story, Maaza Mengiste

"The Invisible Map" by Maaza Mengiste. a powerful and disturbing story: BBC Radio 4, IPlayer.

"In Maaza Mengiste's new short story, 'The Invisible Map', a young Ethiopian woman, hoping for a better life in Europe, finds herself trapped in a Libyan prison.

Read by Adjoa Andoh.  Produced by Emma Harding 

Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed 'Beneath the Lion's Gaze', has been translated into several languages and was a finalist for a Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She teaches at NYU and currently lives in New York City".

Maaza's website