How to Read the Air

ISBN-13: 9780099521037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str.

Dinaw Mengestu

Opis

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 in search of an identity as an American couple. 30 years later, the couple's son, Jonas, sets out to retrace his parent's trip.

Recenzje

A straight-forward, compassionate, keenly sensitive observer of real life James Lasdun Guardian

O autorze

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Ethiopia in 1978 and is a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia universities. His 2007 debut novel, Children of the Revolution, won the Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2010, he was included in the New Yorker's '20 Under 40' list of writers to watch.