Author Nega Mezlekia grew up in waning days of Emperor Hailie Selassie's reign over Ethiopia. He was a fervant supporter of the communist uprising that ended Selassie's rule and brought down Ethopia's centuries old feudal system in 1974. But Mezlekia quickly became disillusioned as he saw family and friends die under the new totalitarianism. He escaped to Canada in 1985 and he has lived there ever since. He has now written two books about the strife in his homeland. "Notes from the Belly of the Hyena" is a memoir which won the prestigious Governor's Award in Canada. His new book is a novel, "The God who Begat a Jackal" which he says is part fable, part history. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr it's three stories woven into one.