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Mengestu, Dinaw
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Fiction
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2014
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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English
β 147 KB
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All Our Names
β Scribed by Mengestu, Dinaw
- Book ID
- 108083753
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 261 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385349987
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 Award, the New Yorker 's 20 under 40 Award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes a novel about exile, about the loneliness and fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories.
All Our Names is the story of a young man who comes of age during an African revolution, drawn from the hushed halls of his university into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, and the path of revolution leads to almost certain destruction, he leaves behind his country and friends for America. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into the routines of small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the charismatic leader...
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