The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Softcover

Mengestu, Dinaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594482853 ISBN 13: 9781594482854

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2008

Synopsis

Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again.

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About this title

About the Author:

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and was named a "20 under 40" writer to watch by The New Yorker. Mengestu's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper's, Granta, and other publications. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594482853
• ISBN 13: 9781594482854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240