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Someone Like Us

Dinaw Mengestu

'Masterful . . . haunting and vibrantly alive' Steve Toltz, author of Here Goes Nothing A heartbreaking novel about loss, family and exile, from the winner of the Guardian First Book Award After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Helen - a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love, but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage on the verge of collapse, he leaves his young family and returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington DC that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush's stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father-figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as cover for a harder, more troubling truth. But on the same day that Mamush arrives home in Washington, Samuel is found dead in his garage. What follows is an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions Mamush has been told never to ask. As he does so, he begins to understand that perhaps the only chance he has of saving his family and making it back home is to confront not only the unresolved mystery around Samuel's life and death, but his own troubled memories, and the years spent masking them. 'Dinaw Mengestu thinks deeply about how stories are told, especially migrant tales' New York Times

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : AUG 1, 2024
  • Imprint : Sceptre
  • Page Extent : 272
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781444793796
  • Price : INR 1,599
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Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Foundation Award, was born in Ethiopia and raised in Illinois. His fiction and journalism have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. Mengestu was chosen for the 5 under 35 Award by the National Book Foundation and was named on The New Yorker's '20 under 40' list in 2010. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Fiction Fellowship, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other awards.
He is the author of four novels: Children of the Revolution, How to Read the Air, All Our Names, and Someone Like Us. His work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. He is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities and the Director of the Written Arts program and the Center for Ethics and Writing.

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