The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The
Shadow King'This is a book anchored to the body, vivid with smells and
fears and violations' GuardianAddis 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.
Beneath the Lion's Gaze - Maaza Mengiste
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