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Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978-
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Students, Foreign -- United States -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Women social workers -- United States -- Fiction.
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All our names / Dinaw Mengestu.
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Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Subjects
Students, Foreign -- United States -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Women social workers -- United States -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780385349987 (hbk.)
038534998X (hbk.)
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255 p. ; 25 cm.
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1st ed.
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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.--Publisher's description.
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