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"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."isbn-9780099539926
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Pages : 320
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