How to Read the Air
(Sprache: Englisch)
The eagerly anticipated follow-up from the acclaimed author of Children of the Revolution , winner of the 2007 Guardian First Book Award.
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The eagerly anticipated follow-up from the acclaimed author of Children of the Revolution , winner of the 2007 Guardian First Book Award.
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A powerful and moving summer read that explores love, grief and the reality of the contemporary American immigrant experienceJonas, 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 from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to a brighter vision of his own life in contemporary America, a story - real or invented- that holds the possibility of reconciliation and redemption.
'A story of exile and redemption, beautifully written' The Times
Autoren-Porträt von 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Dinaw Mengestu
- 2012, 336 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0099521032
- ISBN-13: 9780099521037
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.10.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „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 least true" Los Angeles Times "How To Read the Air is deeply thought out, deliberate in its craftsmanship and in many parts beautifully written...remarkably talented" -- Miguel Syjuco The Scotsman "Challenging" -- Peter Carty Independent
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A straight-forward, compassionate, keenly sensitive observer of real life James Lasdun Guardian
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