The Resource All our names, Dinaw Mengestu
All our names, Dinaw Mengestu
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The item All our names, Dinaw Mengestu represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
Resource Information
The item All our names, Dinaw Mengestu represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- An unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart--one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn.--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345805669
- Label
- All our names
- Title
- All our names
- Statement of responsibility
- Dinaw Mengestu
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Andrae, A
- City and town life -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Identity (Psychology)
- African Americans
- truePsychological fiction
- Secrets -- Fiction
- Students, Foreign
- Students, Foreign -- United States -- Fiction
- United States
- trueWomen social workers
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart--one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn.--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mengestu, Dinaw
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3613.E487
- LC item number
- A66 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- A Borzoi book
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Students, Foreign
- African Americans
- Identity (Psychology)
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Friendship
- City and town life
- Secrets
- Coming of age
- African Americans
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Identity (Psychology)
- Students, Foreign
- United States
- Andrae, A
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Label
- All our names, Dinaw Mengestu
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn849198719
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345805669
- Lccn
- 2013031632
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)849198719
- Label
- All our names, Dinaw Mengestu
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn849198719
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345805669
- Lccn
- 2013031632
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)849198719
Subject
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Andrae, A
- City and town life -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Identity (Psychology)
- African Americans
- truePsychological fiction
- Secrets -- Fiction
- Students, Foreign
- Students, Foreign -- United States -- Fiction
- United States
- trueWomen social workers
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
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