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This is the Book worth to read: Beneath the Lion’s gaze

January 27, 2010 at 1:33 AM Leave a comment

by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio

January 26, 2010 

Meaza Mengiste

But the experience was so traumatic she has very clear memories of what happened.

“I remembered so vividly my life in Ethiopia, and I remember very specific moments and those stayed with me here,” she said. “And as I grew older I started wanting to put them into context, to try to find a historical and political explanation for what I remembered.”

So she wrote “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” a critically-acclaimed novel about a family living through the Ethiopian revolution. The story also tells of the last days of Hailie Selassie before his death in prison.

Maaza Mengiste, who now lives in New York, told Euan Kerr even though many people wanted the Emperor gone, his removal was traumatic.

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