Book Cover Image of Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu

Children of the Revolution
by Dinaw Mengestu

    Publication Date: Jul 01, 2009
    List Price: $17.75
    Format: Paperback, 240 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780099502739
    Imprint: Vintage Books USA
    Publisher: Penguin Random House
    Parent Company: Bertelsmann

    Paperback Description:

    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…