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Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio,and Lettre International, among other places. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Both her fiction and nonfiction examine the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile, and consider the intersections of photography and violence. She was a writer on the social-activist documentary film, Girl Ris ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 18,356 ratings · 2,539 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Shadow King 3.67 avg rating — 14,234 ratings — published 2019 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath the Lion's Gaze 3.96 avg rating — 3,436 ratings — published 2010 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Jeff Schwager (Contributor)(Narrator), Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 1,201 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila (Editor), Fatou Diome (Contributor), Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Addis Ababa Noir 3.51 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'ascaro. Una storia anticoloniale by Gebreyesus Hailu, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar (Translator), Maaza Mengiste (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1927 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freeman's. Amore by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maaza Mengiste, Daniel Mendelsohn 4.09 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow King By Maaza Mengiste & Burnt Sugar By Avni Doshi 2 Books Collection Set by Maaza Mengiste 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brief Portrait of Small Deaths 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LES GUERRIERES DU SAHEL 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

tags: destiny, god, god-s-will

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“We must not be anything other than what we are.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

tags: identity, identity-politics, self

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“Girls die from many causes: childbirth, illness, disease, men.”
― Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

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