Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

In a narrative sparkling with wit, Nega Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in Jijiga, Ethiopia during the fall of Emperor Selassie, and his bold journey to manhood during the rise to power of the communist Junta whose merciless Red Terror slaughtered 100,000 Ethiopian youths. Out of this sundrenched land [...]
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In a narrative sparkling with wit, Nega Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in Jijiga, Ethiopia during the fall of Emperor Selassie, and his bold journey to manhood during the rise to power of the communist Junta whose merciless Red Terror slaughtered 100,000 Ethiopian youths. Out of this sundrenched land where modern corruption rides ancient custom like a predator, Mezlekia crafts a world elegant in its aridity, extreme in its absurdity, and vast in its ironies.Author Biography: Nega Mezlekia's memoir was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and the winner of the Governor General's Award. His first novel is The God Who Begat a Jackal (Picador). Nega Mezlekia left Ethiopia in 1983 with little more than the clothes he was wearing. He now lives in Toronto.