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Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel
By (author) Maaza Mengiste
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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.
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Publisher | WW Norton & Co
Published date | 3 Jan 2011
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 211 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 307g
ISBN | 978-0-3933-3888-1
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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