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    Beneath the Lion's Gaze

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    ISBN: 9780099539926
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    AuthorMengiste, Maaza
    Pub Date03/03/2011
    BindingPaperback
    Pages320
    Publisher: ARROW
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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.

    The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King

    Addis 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.