Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Informationen zum Autor Maaza Mengiste Klappentext Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, she was named "New Literary Idol" by New York Magazine . Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Ninth Letter and 42opus , has been translated and published into German and Romanian for Lettre International , and can be found in the Seal Press anthology Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place and Time . She has received fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Yaddo. She currently lives in New York. Zusammenfassung Beneath the Lion's Gaze 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.

Product details

• Authors: Maaza Mengiste, Mengiste Maaza
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780099539926
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953992-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Addis Ababa, c 1970 to c 1979