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Dinaw Mengestu

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.
Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us
A novel
Dinaw Mengestu
978-0-385-35000-6
Hardcover
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
978-1-59448-285-4
Paperback

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Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us
A novel
Dinaw Mengestu
978-0-385-35000-6
Hardcover
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
978-1-59448-285-4
Paperback

Events

Tue Aug 06
POLITICS AND PROSE BOOKSTORE
5015 CONNECTICUT AVE NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20008-2024
Google Map

Thu Aug 08 | 06:00 PM
CITY LIGHTS INC
261 COLUMBUS AVE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133-4519
Google Map

Mon Aug 26
CITY OF ASYLUM DBA CITY OF ASYLUM BOOKS
40 W NORTH AVE
PITTSBURGH, PA 15212-4710
Google Map

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