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BENEATH THE LIONS GAZE

Author: Maaza Mengiste
SKU: 9780099539926

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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.

 

Format: Paperback / softback 320 pages

Classifications: Classifications:

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

ISBN : 9780099539926

Published : N/A

Author : Maaza Mengiste

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Vintage Publishing

Size : 129 x 196 x 26 (mm)

Weight : 226g

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