Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A NovelThis 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 5 |
Section 2 | 20 |
Section 3 | 25 |
Section 4 | 30 |
Section 5 | 33 |
Section 6 | 36 |
Section 7 | 41 |
Section 8 | 44 |
Section 21 | 144 |
Section 22 | 156 |
Section 23 | 157 |
Section 24 | 161 |
Section 25 | 176 |
Section 26 | 180 |
Section 27 | 184 |
Section 28 | 208 |
Section 9 | 50 |
Section 10 | 56 |
Section 11 | 61 |
Section 12 | 72 |
Section 13 | 74 |
Section 14 | 86 |
Section 15 | 90 |
Section 16 | 98 |
Section 17 | 107 |
Section 18 | 128 |
Section 19 | 133 |
Section 20 | 138 |
Section 29 | 214 |
Section 30 | 246 |
Section 31 | 254 |
Section 32 | 256 |
Section 33 | 274 |
Section 34 | 278 |
Section 35 | 281 |
Section 36 | 286 |
Section 37 | 290 |
Section 38 | 292 |
Section 39 | 296 |