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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- Children of the revolution. London : Vintage, 2008 (OCoLC)760269706 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dinaw Mengestu |
| ISBN: | 9780099502739 0099502739 |
| OCLC Number: | 212430988 |
| Notes: | Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. |
| Awards: | Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2007. |
| Description: | 228 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Dinaw Mengestu. |
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"A quietly accomplished debut novel... Despite, or perhaps because of, the attritions of his years in exile, Sepha has remained astonishingly tender. In the end, it is this human warmth that triumphs" Guardian "Brilliant... a courageous and engaging novel" Daily Telegraph "With faultless pitch and tone, this elegiac first novel packs great matters into its modest span" Independent "A quietly brilliant portrait of immigrant life... Children of the Revolution reads like an Ethopian variation on The Great Gatsby. Remarkably it's not diminished by this comparison" Financial Times "A rich and lyrical story of displacement and loneliness. I was profoundly moved by this tale of an Ethiopian immigrant's search for acceptance, peace, and identity... Mengestu makes us feel this tortured soul's longings, regrets, and in the end, his dreams of meaningful human connection" -- Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner Read more...
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