Beneath the Lion's Gaze
An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia's revolution.
An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia's revolution.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780393076776 (0393076776)
Publish date: January 3rd 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
War,
Politics,
Contemporary,
African Literature
"BENEATH THE LION'S GAZE" tells a story of a family caught up in the full fury of a political revolution that took place in Ethiopia in 1974. In reading this novel, there were parallels between the overthrow of the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789....
First, the cover is not doing this book any favors. I assumed it was a memoir, probably of a child soldier or something.Even once I realized this was a novel, I didn’t have high expectations for it: I was expecting another earnest but poorly-written book published on the strength of covering awful e...
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