Ethiopian history and the people omitted from official narratives are central to Maaza Mengiste’s fiction. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze follows a family during the Ethiopian Revolution and the rise of the Derg, moving between political violence and intimate decisions about loyalty and survival. The Shadow King turns to the 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia and centres women who take part in resistance, including Hirut, a servant drawn into armed struggle. Mengiste’s prose is lyrical, visually intense and often shifts between viewpoints rather than following one conventional hero. The catalogue is best browsed alongside Ethiopian literature, African historical fiction, war fiction and stories about memory, occupation and resistance. Read more Less
No products in the cart.