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Beneath the Lion's Gazeopens 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 Gazeis a transcendent story that introduces a powerful new voice.
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The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow KingAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - 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.Emotionally gripping, poetic and indelibly tragic, Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a transcendent story that tells a gripping story of family and of the bonds of love and friendship. 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.'This is a book anchored to the body, vivid with smells and fears and violations' Guardian
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Autorenportrait
- Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, she was named "New Literary Idol" by<i>New York Magazine</i>. Her work has appeared in<i>The Baltimore Review, Ninth Letter</i>and<i>42opus</i>, has been translated and published into German and Romanian for<i>Lettre International</i>, and can be found in the Seal Press anthology<i>Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place and Time</i>. She has received fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Yaddo. She currently lives in New York.
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Schlagzeile
- <b>An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia's revolution.</b>
Detailansicht
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781409090328
Umbreit-Nr.: 6452017
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 320 S., 0.50 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 04.03.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM