Dinaw Mengestu

Broschiertes Buch

Someone Like Us

A Novel

Beschreibung

"The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home"--

Autor

DINAW MENGESTU is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: All Our Names, How to Read the Air, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. His articles and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Jane, and Rolling Stone. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Prize, Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among other honors. He was also included in The New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list in 2010.

Produktdetails

• Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 132mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780345805676
• ISBN-10: 0345805674
• Artikelnr.: 74787018