It is in managing to strike the perfect balance between these dialectics that a book is either successful or not. Maaza Mengiste's Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a powerful novel that successfully manages to /5(). Maaza Mengiste is the author ofnbsp;The Shadow King, longlisted for the Booker Prize, a LA Times Books Prize finalist, and a Best Book of bynbsp;New York Times, NPR, Time,nbsp;Elle,nbsp;and other publications.nbsp;Beneath the Lion's Gaze, her debut, wasnbsp;selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African bltadwin.ru by: 1. Maaza Mengiste’s historical fiction novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze follows the political upheaval that overwhelmed Ethiopia in the s. Addis Ababa is rocked and overwhelmed with increasingly violent protests regarding the Emperor’s tired views, which ultimately descends into absolute turmoil with the addition of a neo-Stalinist regime.
Maaza Mengiste's historical fiction novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze follows the political upheaval that overwhelmed Ethiopia in the bltadwin.ru Ababa is rocked and overwhelmed with increasingly violent protests regarding the Emperor's tired views, which ultimately descends into absolute turmoil with the addition of a neo-Stalinist regime. Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright scholar and the author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze named by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. Advance praise for Beneath the Lion's Gaze: "With words that make 'a faint, tender bruise' on the page, and a compassionate imagination that transforms everything it touches on, Maaza Mengiste delivers an important story from a part of Africa too long silent in the World Republic of Letters."—Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and The Virgin of Flames.
Maaza Mengiste’s first novel, “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” opens in during the last days of Selassie’s six-decade rule. A young man lies on an operating table with a bullet in his back. Beneath the Lion's Gaze is the outstanding debut novel of an unquestionably gifted writer. Maaza Mengiste's style is absolutely beautiful; she flawlessly combines flowing description and contemplative characters with an action-oriented plot. Often "poetic writing" is synonymous with "slow reading," but this novel is engrossing from start to finish. Maaza Mengiste is the author ofnbsp;The Shadow King, longlisted for the Booker Prize, a LA Times Books Prize finalist, and a Best Book of bynbsp;New York Times, NPR, Time,nbsp;Elle,nbsp;and other publications.nbsp;Beneath the Lion's Gaze, her debut, wasnbsp;selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books.
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