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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- author.     Subjects     Students, Foreign -- United States -- Fiction.     African Americans -- Fiction.     Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- author.       by title:      All our names [elect...         MARC Display

All our names [electronic resource] / Dinaw Mengestu. by Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Subjects Students, Foreign -- United States -- Fiction.   African Americans -- Fiction.   Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=1347E19A-63C9-4B3C-8F78-17B81CAFB9C0 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{1347E19A-63C9-4B3C-8F78-17B81CAFB9C0}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385349994 (electronic bk.) 0385349998 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Edition:  Unabridged. Requests:  0 Summary:  From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart'one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn. From the Hardcover edition.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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