The God Who Begat a Jackal A Novel

by Mezlekia, Nega

• ISBN13: 9780312309961
• ISBN10: 0312309961
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-04
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

From the author of the hugely acclaimed memoirNotes from the Hyena's Bellycomes a first novel steeped in African folklore and teeming with the class, ethnic, and religious struggles of pre-colonial Africa. Set in eighteenth-century Abyssinia, Mezlekia's novel beautifully intertwines vassal uprisings and the Crusades with the intense love between Aster, the daughter of a feudal lord, and Gudu, the court jester and family slave.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Map	p. xi
Stardust
Devil in the Wilderness	p. 3
Strange Bundle of Joy	p. 13
The Stuff of Legend	p. 23
Unattended Daisy	p. 31
Moonbeams
Riddles and Deception	p. 39
Patron Saint of Salt Miners	p. 53
A Lowly God	p. 63
A Caring Jacana	p. 73
Intrigues
A For Bidden Affair	p. 87
A Changing Diviner	p. 95
Pesky Peasants	p. 103
Green and Alive	p. 111
A Husband for Aster	p. 121
The Last Laugh	p. 131
Revelations
Inquisitors	p. 143
Holy Smoke	p. 153
The Saintly Slave	p. 161
The Three Abettors	p. 167
Vprising
The Feared One	p. 177
Taking Care of Aster	p. 185
Dung Beetle	p. 193
Letting Down the Guard	p. 203
Delirium	p. 215
Shifting Winds	p. 225
Historical Postscript	p. 239
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