{"id":627332,"date":"2010-01-11T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2010-01-11T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:15:17","slug":"beneath-the-lion%e2%80%99s-gaze-by-maaza-mengiste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/627332","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Lion\u2019s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9125\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lionfinal-cover-197x300.jpg?resize=197%2C300\" alt=\"lionfinal-cover\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/>Beneath the Lion&#8217;s Gaze is a novel by Maaza Mengiste an Addis Ababa, Ethiopian born author with an MFA in creative writing from New York University.<\/p>\n<p>This novel is about &#8220;an epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a\u00a0 family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopians revolution&#8221;. &#8220;It tells a gripping\u00a0 story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction before. 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.<span id=\"more-9124\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This novel has been acclaimed to be a &#8220;transcendent and a powerful debut&#8221; by a very powerful writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath the Lion&#8217;s Gaze is a novel by Maaza Mengiste an Addis Ababa, Ethiopian born author with an MFA in creative writing from New York University. This novel is about &#8220;an epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a\u00a0 family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopians revolution&#8221;. &#8220;It tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Dcg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}