Beneath the Lions Gaze Mengiste MaazaPaperback
Beneath the Lions Gaze Mengiste MaazaPaperback Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to…
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Beneath the Lions Gaze Mengiste MaazaPaperback
Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. 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.
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. 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. 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.