"Beneath the Lion's Gaze" 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. 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. 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.
- ISBN10 1400194946
- ISBN13 9781400194940
- Publish Date 25 January 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publisher Tantor Media, Inc
- Imprint Tantor Audio
- Format eBook
- Language English