Description
Product ID: | 9780099502739 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Children of the Revolution |
Authors: | Author: Dinaw Mengestu |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-05-22 |