Beneath the Lions Gaze

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 Movementoa 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.