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All Our Names

by Dinaw Mengestu

Kirkus Prize (Fiction) · 2014 · Shortlist
Knopfliterary-fictionISBN 9780385349994

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Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction2014Shortlist

About This Book

Alternating between 1970s Uganda and the American Midwest, the novel follows two men swept up in a revolution and one man's subsequent love affair with his social worker. A finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize.

About the Author

Dinaw MengestuUS

Dinaw Mengestu is an Ethiopian-American novelist and MacArthur Fellow. His novels include The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, How to Read the Air, and All Our Names. He is a professor of English at Georgetown University.

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