Statistics:
Hardcover; January 2001;
368
pages
Description:
In this powerful memoir, Nega Mezlekia recalls in vivid detail
his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga, Ethiopia, and his bold
journey to manhood during the 1970s and 1980s, his country's
most turbulent period. In a narrative that sparkles with wit,
Mezlekia traces his personal evolution from child to soldier...Notes
from the Hyena's Belly teems with the smells, sights and sounds
of life in the Horn of Africa-its violent, ingenious humans and
its underworld of screeching monkeys, lions and hyenas. Part
autobiography and part social history, this is an unforgettable
portrait of a world where the boundaries of credulity are
challenged daily. Out of this rich, 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.
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