Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's regime was toppled by a brutal coup in the wake of a famine in the early 1970s, providing the setting for Maaza Mengiste's novel, "Beneath the Lion's Gaze." Seen through the eyes of a prominent, Western-trained physician and his family, Ethiopia's descent into an authoritarian nightmare is narrated with a cool detachment that combines nostalgia with a ... Full Story