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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."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Beneath the Lion's Gaze
• Author: Maaza Mengiste
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780393338881
• ISBN: 0393338886
• ID: 04604721
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO
• Weight: 263 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 139 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 2010

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