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October 2010
On Sale: October 14, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 1594487707
EAN: 9781594487705
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Fiction Family Life
From the prizewinning international literary star: the
searing and powerful story of one man's search for redemption. Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That
Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to Bellow,
Fitzgerald, and Naipaul, and garnered ecstatic critical
praise and awards around the world for its haunting
depiction of the immigrant experience. Now Mengestu enriches
the themes that defined his debut with a heartbreaking
literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of
imagination, which confirms his reputation as one of the
brightest talents of his generation. One early September afternoon, Yosef and Mariam, young
Ethiopian immigrants who have spent all but their first year
of marriage apart, set off on a road trip from their new
home in Peoria, Illinois, to Nashville, Tennessee, in search
of a new identity as an American couple. Soon, their son,
Jonas, will be born in Illinois. Thirty years later, Yosef
has died, and Jonas needs to make sense of the volatile
generational and cultural ties that have forged him. How can
he envision his future without knowing what has come before?
Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas sets
out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave
together a family history that will take him from the
war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the
America of today, a story-real or invented- that holds the
possibility of reconciliation and redemption.
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