Children of the Revolution
Author: Mengestu, Dinaw
ISBN: 9780099502739
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jul 2008
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
A haunting debut by gifted young Ethiopian-American author and winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2007
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa.
But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change...
ISBN: 9780099502739
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jul 2008
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
A haunting debut by gifted young Ethiopian-American author and winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2007
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa.
But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change...
