![]() The doctor sees his patient - and his own younger son, who is also a revolutionary college student - as rash and foolish. The attending physician wears a watch the emperor gave him upon his graduation from an English A young man lies on an operating table with a bullet in his back.Ī student protester, he is part of a popular tide that, along with a military uprising, will soon sweep Selassie from power. Maaza Mengiste’s first novel, “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” opens in 1974 during the last days of Selassie’s six-decade rule. The leader’s complexįeelings of gratitude, guilt and resentment led him, after his restoration, to have the partisans who saved Ethiopia from Italian subjugation quietly killed. ![]() When the Italians invaded, this supposedly ferocious ruler went “byīoat to England and spent the war in the quiet little town of Bath,” the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski reported in “The Emperor,” his brilliant book about Selassie. ![]() ![]() Yet the King of Kings, as Selassie liked to be called, was something less than the Conquering Lion of Judah that was the symbol of the Ethiopian monarchy. In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. ![]()
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