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How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu
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Description for How to Read the Air
Paperback. One early September afternoon, Yosef and Mariam, young Ethiopians set off on a road trip in search of an identity as an American couple. Thirty years later, Yosef has died, and the couple's son, Jonas, is desperate to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
A powerful and moving summer read that explores love, grief and the reality of the contemporary American immigrant experience
Jonas, fresh from a failed marriage, is desperate to make sense of the ties that have forged him. How can he dream of a future when he can't make sense of his past? He hits the road, tracing the route that his parents - young Ethiopians in search of an identity as an American couple - took thirty years earlier to Nashville, Tennessee.
In a stunning display of imagination he weaves together a history that takes him ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099521037
SKU
V9780099521037
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99-2
About Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Ethiopia in 1978 and is a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia universities. His 2007 debut novel, Children of the Revolution, won the Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2010, he was included in the New Yorker's '20 Under 40' list of writers to watch.
Reviews for How to Read the Air
A straight-forward, compassionate, keenly sensitive observer of real life
James Lasdun
Guardian
A story of exile and redemption, beautifully written
Kate Saunders
The Times
[Mengestu has] pulled off a narrative sleight of hand, weaving two - or is it three? - beautiful fictions, while reminding us subtly that the most seductive may be the ... Read more
James Lasdun
Guardian
A story of exile and redemption, beautifully written
Kate Saunders
The Times
[Mengestu has] pulled off a narrative sleight of hand, weaving two - or is it three? - beautiful fictions, while reminding us subtly that the most seductive may be the ... Read more