Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

Author:Maaza Mengiste [Mengiste, Maaza]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781409090328
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

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SELAM SAID DEATH came in moonlight. There is this to know, she said. There is silence and no thought. All is carved away and swallowed in the dark. This is death, she told him each time she thought she’d breathed her last. It is like this, and I am leaving in this way. But this girl in front of me, Hailu thought, still soaking in sunrays, knows that life is in the moonlight, even in the silence. That death holds thoughts. It gouges and violates. Death is not in the absence and oblivion of letting go, but in the crash and tear of depravity and brutality, as electrifyingly putrid as excrement and rotting flesh. And what have I given her? What have I given her but another moment in the stink and mire of horror and noise?

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