![]() ![]() ![]() But now a military takeover has occurred and the communists are in power, a group known as the Derg. Ethiopia today is still two-thirds Christian (Coptic) and one-third Moslem. ![]() ![]() It’s the last days of Christian Emperor Haile Selassie who successfully led the fight against Mussolini’s soldiers - spears vs. This novel is set in Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, in the late 1970’s. Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. 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.īeneath 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. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. 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. This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a 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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