Beneath the Lion's Gaze - 9780393071764
Un libro in lingua di Maaza Mengiste edito da W W Norton & Co Inc, 2010
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Beneath the Lion's Gaze
- Sottotitolo: A Novel
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Maaza Mengiste
- Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Collana: W W Norton & Co Inc (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 11 Gennaio '10
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Physicians Fiction Fathers and sons Fiction Families Ethiopia Fiction
- Pagine: 384
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 165 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0393071766
- EAN-13: 9780393071764