Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: a Novel

✍ Scribed by Maaza Mengiste

• Book ID: 100188269
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2010;2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 181 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0393076776

✦ Synopsis

"An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters."--The New York Times Book Review 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...