Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Notes from the Hyena’s Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood by Nega Mezlekia in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong silver title gilt on the straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rubbed spine ends, moderate edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In this acclaimed memoir, Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga, Ethiopia, and his journey to manhood during the 1970s and 1980s. He traces his personal evolution from child to soldier–forced at the age of eighteen to join a guerrilla army. And he describes the hardships that consumed Ethiopia after the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rise to power of the communist junta, in whose terror thousands of Ethiopians died. Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena’s Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the defining and turbulent years of the last century.
Ships promptly in a manila envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
