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% Product Description Author: Mengiste Maaza Language: English ISBN No: 9780099539926 No of Pages: 320 Binding: PAPERBACK Publisher: Vintage Description Description 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. Author Biography 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 New York Magazine. Her Work Has Appeared In The Baltimore Review Ninth Letter And 42Opus Has Been Translated And Published Into German And Romanian For Lettre International And Can Be Found In The Seal Press Anthology Homelands Women?S Journeys Across Race Place And Time.

She Has Received Fellowships From Virginia Center For The Creative Arts And Yaddo. She Currently Lives In New York.

Maaza Mengiste Is An Accomplished Young Writer. Recently Nominated For The Pushcart Prize She Was Also Named ?New Literary Idol? By New York Magazine.

Visit The Author'S Website - Www.Maazamengiste.

Com A Powerful Novel Which Opens In Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1974 On The Eve Of A Revolution. 'Ethiopia'S 1974 Revolution Tears A Family In Half In This Striking Debut.

Mengiste Is As Adept At Crafting Emotionally Delicate Moments As She Is Deft At Portraying The Tense And Grim Historical Material While Her Judicious Sprinkling Of Lyricism Imbues This Novel With A Vivid Atmosphere.That The Novel Subjects The Reader To The Same Feelings Of Hopelessness And Despair That Its Characters Grapple With Is A Grand Testament To Mengiste'S Talent.

' - Publisher'S Weekly 'An Arresting Powerful Novel That Works On Both Personal And Political Levels.' - Kirkus 'Lucid And Compelling.

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Beneath The Lion'S Gaze Is An Extraordinary Novel Which Assembles A Dauntingly Broad Cast Of Characters And Through Them Tells Stories That Nobody Can Want To Hear In Such A Way That We Cannot Stop Listening. Although Set More Than Thirty Years Ago Mengiste'S Novel Is Timely And Vital.

Its Illumination Of A World Unfamiliar To Most Shows Us How Individuals Will Fight To Retain Their Humanity In The Face Of Atrocity.' - Claire Messud Bookforum 'Beneath The Lion?S Gaze Is An Important Novel Rich In Compassion For Its Anguished Characters' - Lorraine Adams New York Times Book Review Sales Office Random House 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London Sw1V 2Sa Tel 020 7840 8400 Fax 020 7828 6681 International Tel Credit Card Debit Card Cheque / DD Paypal Net Banking Product Review(s) 1.

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