Author: Maaza Mengiste
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters." —The New York Times Book Review 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.
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel
Author: Maaza Mengiste
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters." —The New York Times Book Review 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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters." —The New York Times Book Review 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.
Main-travelled Roads
Author: Hamlin Garland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farms and farming
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
These short stories are set in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, or what Garland called the "Middle Border." They depict an agrarian life of exploitation, misogyny, and poverty. Garland's radical, realist stories refute romantic conceptions of the rural Midwest.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farms and farming
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
These short stories are set in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, or what Garland called the "Middle Border." They depict an agrarian life of exploitation, misogyny, and poverty. Garland's radical, realist stories refute romantic conceptions of the rural Midwest.
From Midnight to Midnight
Author: Mortimer Collins
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
From midnight to midnight. 1883
Author: Mortimer Collins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A System of Natural History
Author:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Blacksmith and Scholar
Author: Edward James Mortimer Collins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Naturalist's Library
Author: Augustus Addison Gould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Yishi-yuyan
Author: Aesopus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Esops fables
Author: Aesopus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.