Beneath the Lion's Gaze
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze

By Maaza Mengiste
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Beneath the Lion’s Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu’s youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement-a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia. Maaza Mengieste’s powerful debut tells a gripping story of family and of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. It is a story about the lengths to which human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic and indelibly tragic, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent story that introduces a powerful new voice.

PUBLISHER :
vintage publishing
PUBLICATION DATE :
March 3, 2011
ISBN-10 :
0099539926
ISBN-13:
9780099539926
LANGUAGE :
English
FORMAT :
Paperback / softback
PAGES :
320 Pages
PUBLISHER :
vintage publishing
PUBLICATION DATE :
March 3, 2011
ISBN-10 :
0099539926
ISBN-13:
9780099539926
LANGUAGE :
English
FORMAT :
Paperback / softback
PAGES :
320 Pages
Our price:
$20.00

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

By Maaza Mengiste
en
Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement-a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia. Maaza Mengieste's powerful debut tells a gripping story of family and of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. It is a story about the lengths to which human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic and indelibly tragic, Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a transcendent story that introduces a powerful new voice.
PUBLISHER :
vintage publishing
PUBLICATION DATE :
March 3, 2011
ISBN-10 :
0099539926
ISBN-13:
9780099539926
LANGUAGE :
English
FORMAT :
Paperback / softback
PAGES :
320 Pages