The Thirteenth Sun (1973)
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Daniachew Worku's novel, published in Heinemann's African Writers Series in 1973, follows the dying nobleman Fitawrary Woldu as he is carried by litter on a pilgrimage up Mount Zuqualla, the Zekwala of the text, with his Western-educated son Goytom and his daughter Woynitu, through a night with a conjure-woman and the journey down with his body. (Open Library)
Watches
- Omega (unidentified model)
- In a cold hut on the mountain, the old man stretches out his hand to the sullen Goytom and gives him a big pocket watch that has been with him fifteen years and never needed a watchmaker. Goytom examines it in the half-dark and identifies it as an Omega; his father says it is not an ordinary watch but a gift from the Emperor, given when he was raised in rank and granted land, and that Goytom should keep it and use it, since his wristwatch is for show and this is for work. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: 'It is not an ordinary watch,' says my father. 'Yes, it's an Omega watch,' says Goytom. 'No, I don't mean that ...' cuts in my father. 'It is a gift given me by our Emperor.' (Daniachew Worku, The Thirteenth Sun, scan cataloged as Heinemann, 1973, p. 161, where the OCR returns the three speeches as separate paragraphs; the Fitawrary's name is given in the text; Internet Archive scan OCR)