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008			102801s2010 nyu 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS3613.E488 _bB46 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC MEN
100	1		_aMengiste, Maaza
245	1	0	_aBeneath the lion's gaze _b: a novel _c/ Maaza Mengiste
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: W. W. Norton & Co. _c, 2010.
300			_a308 p. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-308).
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aPhysicians _v-Fiction
650		4	_aFathers and sons _v--Fiction
650		0	_aFamilies _v--Fiction
651			_aEthiopia _x-History _y-Revolution, 1974 _v--Fiction
651		0	_aAddis Ababa (Ethiopia) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aEpic fiction
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