Beneath the Lion’s Gaze book by Maaza Mengiste
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.
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Beneath the Lion’s Gaze book by Maaza Mengiste
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.
