The God Who Begat a Jackal; Notes from the Hyena’s Belly; Viewpoint; Contact; This is the official Website of African author and scholar Nega Mezlekia. Nega has authored three books. His last work, The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades, a novel, was shortlisted as the Best Book for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, His. Book Overview. From the author of the hugely acclaimed memoir "Notes from the Hyena's Belly" comes a first novel steeped in African folklore and teeming with the class, ethnic, and religious struggles of pre-colonial Africa. Set in eighteenth-century Abyssinia, Mezlekia's novel beautifully intertwines vassal uprisings and the Crusades with the intense love between Aster, the daughter of a feudal lord, and /5(2). · Nega Mezlekia is the author of Notes from the Hyena's Belly, winner of the Governor General's Award, and a novel, The God Who Begat a Jackal. He left Ethiopia in and is now an engineer living in www.doorway.ru: Picador.
The God Who Begat a Jackal. Authors: Nega Mezlekia. Categories: A Library Journal Best Book Nega Mezlekia's memoir Notes from the Hyena's Belly was described in the New York Times Book Review as "the most riveting book about Ethiopia since Ryszard Kapuscinski's literary allegory The Emperor and the most distinguished African literary memoir. "The God Who Begat a Jackal is everything a novel should be. It delivers an entire world--a profound, comical, moving, and memorable one. The moral and social truths of this novel--subtly and brilliantly evoked--are reminiscent of the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Nega Mezlekia is a writer with extraordinary vision.". Mezlekia now offers a first novel steeped in African folklore and teeming with the class, ethnic and religious struggles of pre-colonial Africa. In The God Who Begat a Jackal, the 17th-century feudal system, vassal uprisings, religious mythology, and the Crusades are intertwined with the love between Aster, the daughter of a feudal lord, and.
This is the official Website of African author and scholar Nega Mezlekia. Nega has authored three books. His last work, The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades, a novel, was shortlisted as the Best Book for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, His first book, Notes from the Hyena’s Belly, a memoir, won Canada’s highest. Book Overview. From the author of the hugely acclaimed memoir "Notes from the Hyena's Belly" comes a first novel steeped in African folklore and teeming with the class, ethnic, and religious struggles of pre-colonial Africa. Set in eighteenth-century Abyssinia, Mezlekia's novel beautifully intertwines vassal uprisings and the Crusades with the intense love between Aster, the daughter of a feudal lord, and Gudu, the court jester and family slave. Nega Mezlekia is the author of Notes from the Hyena's Belly, winner of the Governor General's Award, and a novel, The God Who Begat a Jackal. He left Ethiopia in and is now an engineer living in Toronto.
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