Beneath the Lion's Gaze book by Maaza Mengiste

Beneath the Lion's Gaze book by Maaza Mengiste

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Beneath the Lion's Gaze book by Maaza Mengiste

An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution.

This memorable, heartbreaking story 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.

 

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze tells a gripping story of family, 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 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 and powerful debut. .


Book details

  • Paperback
  • 323 pages
  • English
  • 0099539926
  • 9780099539926

About Maaza Mengiste

maaza mengiste is an ethiopian-american writer and author of the novels beneath the lion's gaze and the shadow king, the latter of which was longlisted for Read More about Maaza Mengiste
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