by Dinaw Mengestu (Author)
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Stepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa. But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 22 May 2008
ISBN 10: 0099502739
ISBN 13: 9780099502739
Book Overview: A haunting debut by gifted young Ethiopian-American author and winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2007
Prizes: Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2007.