Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel

Awards:   Commended for Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize 2010 Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Debut Author) 2011 Runner-up for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Fiction) 2011
Author:   Maaza Mengiste (Queens College)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
ISBN:  

9780393071764


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 March 2010
Replaced By:   9780393338881
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel


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Awards

  • Commended for Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize 2010
  • Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Debut Author) 2011
  • Runner-up for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Fiction) 2011

Overview

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.

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Author:   Maaza Mengiste (Queens College)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780393071764


ISBN 10:   0393071766
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 March 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780393338881
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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Starred Review. [A] striking debut... Mengiste is as adept at crafting emotionally delicate moments as she is deft at portraying the tense and grim historical material, while her judicious sprinkling of lyricism imbues this novel with a vivid atmosphere that is distinct without becoming overpowering. Beneath the Lion's Gaze is an extraordinary novel, which assembles a dauntingly broad cast of characters and, through them, tells stories that nobody can want to hear, in such a way that we cannot stop listening. Although set more than thirty years ago, Mengiste's novel is timely and vital: Its illumination of a world unfamiliar to most Americans shows us how individuals will fight to retain their humanity in the face of atrocity. -- Claire Messud An arresting, powerful novel that works on both personal and political levels. [Mengiste's] honors do not belie her skill, for this book is stunning.


Beneath the Lion's Gaze is an extraordinary novel, which assembles a dauntingly broad cast of characters and, through them, tells stories that nobody can want to hear, in such a way that we cannot stop listening. Although set more than thirty years ago, Mengiste's novel is timely and vital: Its illumination of a world unfamiliar to most Americans shows us how individuals will fight to retain their humanity in the face of atrocity. -- Claire Messud


Starred Review. [A] striking debut.... Mengiste is as adept at crafting emotionally delicate moments as she is deft at portraying the tense and grim historical material, while her judicious sprinkling of lyricism imbues this novel with a vivid atmosphere that is distinct without becoming overpowering.


Author Information

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Maaza Mengiste received a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Also a Fulbright Scholar and a professor at Queens College, she is the author of The Shadow King and Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, and a 2018 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in New York City.

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