The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow KingAddis Ababa
Ethiopia 1974 - 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.Emotionally gripping poetic and indelibly tragic Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a
transcendent story that tells a gripping story of family and of the bonds of love and
friendship. It is a story about the lengths to which human beings will go in pursuit of freedom
and the human price of a national revolution.
