Beneath the lion's gaze : a novel
Mengiste, Maaza
Beneath the lion's gaze : a novel / Maaza Mengiste - 1st ed - New York : W. W. Norton & Co. , 2010. - 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-308).
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.
9780393071764
2009034759
Physicians---Fiction
Fathers and sons----Fiction
Families----Fiction
Ethiopia---History---Revolution, 1974----Fiction
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)----Fiction
Epic fiction
PS3613.E488 / B46 2010
FIC MEN
Beneath the lion's gaze : a novel / Maaza Mengiste - 1st ed - New York : W. W. Norton & Co. , 2010. - 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-308).
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.
9780393071764
2009034759
Physicians---Fiction
Fathers and sons----Fiction
Families----Fiction
Ethiopia---History---Revolution, 1974----Fiction
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)----Fiction
Epic fiction
PS3613.E488 / B46 2010
FIC MEN
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