A young, ambitious homicide detective in Shanghai is worried about his wife and marriage, frustrated by his superiors, and consumed by the Dim Sum serial killer case, and in the end all these factors comverge in an explosive climax

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.

Seventeen years after fleeing the Ethiopian revolution to America, Sepha Stephanos runs a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where he witnesses a series of racially charged incidents and bitterly reflects on his past and the differences between his actual prospects and the life he imagined. A first novel. Reprint.

Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian revolution after his father was killed. His life now is quiet, as he spends his days serving the few customers he has in his general store in a rundown Washington, DC neighbourhood. This book presents the story of his longing for the American dream and of the tenacious grip of the past across continents and time.

Based on the responses of more than fifty thousand students, an exhaustive survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in sixty-four categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips. Original. 70,000 first printing.

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Based on the responses of more than fifty thousand students, an exhaustive survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in sixty-four categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips. Original. 60,000 first printing.