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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Uk
Publication date
December 30, 2010
Pages
336
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780224084710
ISBN-10
0224084712
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 9 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$27.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, "Children of the Revolution", earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the "Guardian" First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in America. Now, he enriches the themes that defined his debut in a story that captures two generations of an immigrant family. One early September afternoon, Yosef and Mariam, young Ethiopians who have spent all but their first year of marriage apart, set off on a road trip from their new home in Peoria, Illinois, to Nashville, Tennessee, in search of an identity as an American couple. Thirty years later, Yosef has died, and the couple's son, Jonas, is desperate to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. How can he envision his future without knowing what has come before? Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas sets out to retrace his parents' trip and, in a stunning display of imagination, weaves together a family 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 heartbreaking masterwork about love, family and the power of imagination, "How to Read the Air" confirms Dinaw Mengestu's reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.
Editions
Paperback
Reprint edition from Riverhead Books (October 4, 2011)
9781594485398 | details & prices | 305 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.00
The price comparison is for this edition
from Vintage Uk (December 30, 2010)
9780224084710 | details & prices | 336 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.02 lbs | List price $27.95
About: Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, "Children of the Revolution", earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the "Guardian" First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in America.
About: Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, "Children of the Revolution", earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the "Guardian" First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in America.
Library
Large print edition from Center Point Pub (January 1, 2011)
9781602859555 | details & prices | 383 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $34.95
About: From the prizewinning international literary star: the searing and powerful story of one man's search for redemption.
About: From the prizewinning international literary star: the searing and powerful story of one man's search for redemption.
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