Nega Mezlekia

Nega Mezlekia is the author of Notes from the Hyena’s Belly, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and winner of the Governor General’s Award. He left Ethiopia in 1983 and is now an engineer living in Toronto.


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The God Who Begat a Jackal

Nega Mezlekia
Picador

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,...


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Notes from the Hyena's Belly

Nega Mezlekia
Picador

Winner of the Governor General's Award A Library Journal Best Book of 2001 Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers...


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