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Children Of The Revolution - Dinaw Mengestu

Children Of The Revolution

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2007
Jonathan Cape Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-224-07931-0 (ISBN)
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Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian revolution after his father was killed. His life now is quiet, as he spends his days serving the few customers he has in his general store in a rundown Washington, DC neighbourhood. This book presents the story of his longing for the American dream and of the tenacious grip of the past across continents and time.
Sepha Stephanos owns a newsagent and general store in a rundown Washington, D.C. neighbourhood that is on the verge of gentrification. Seventeen years ago, he fled the Ethiopian revolution after his father was killed. His life now is quiet, he spends his days reading Russian classics, serving the few customers he has and every Thursday evening he meets with his two friends, Joseph and Kenneth, drinking whisky and making jokes about Africa's long line of dictators and revolutions. When a white woman named Judith moves next door with her mixed-race daughter Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change. His fragile relationship with them gives him a painful glimpse into the life he could have lived and for which he still holds out hope. In an astonishingly assured debut, Dinaw Mengestu writes with powerful understatement of one man's longing for the American dream, and of the tenacious grip of the past across continents and time.

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Ethiopia in 1978 and is a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia universities. He works as a journalist and reviewer and is researching a book tracing his extended family's exile from Ethiopia following the 1974 revolution. Children of the Revolution is his first book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.5.2007
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 256 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-224-07931-X / 022407931X
ISBN-13 978-0-224-07931-0 / 9780224079310
Zustand Neuware
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