Children of the Revolution

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Children of the Revolution

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Author: Dinaw Mengestu

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9780099502739

Date: 22nd May, 2008

Publisher: VINTAGE

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  2. Social Issues
  3. Narrative Theme: Politics
  4. Contemporary Fiction

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Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha 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...

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