Published in , All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu is a coming-of-age story set during an African revolution. The story follows two young men as they are drawn out from the safety of their university campus into the intensity of the streets outside. As the story progresses, the two young men are driven apart, as one becomes involved in the inner workings of the revolution while the other finds refuge in . All Our Names, the third book by the Ethiopian-born, Mac-Arthur grant winner Dinaw Mengestu ’05SOA, explores themes of immigration and the search for identity through the twin stories of a displaced African fleeing his country’s civil unrest in the s and a Midwestern social worker who falls in love with him. But it’s also about what it means to write, an art that depends on specificity, when . All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu takes place in Uganda during the ’s. The main character Isaac is coming from Ethiopia who has never been colonized but /5().
"All Our Names" By Dinaw Mengestu, Knopf, pages, $ Penguin to buy Simon Schuster, create publishing giant; 25 hottest new books for summer;. Dinaw Mengestu: "All Our Names". Author Dinaw Mengestu is known for his stories about the African immigrant experience in America. Born in Ethiopia, Mengestu came to the U.S. as a toddler and grew up in Peoria, Ill. In a new novel, Mengestu juxtaposes the immigrant journey he knows so well with the perilous world of post-independence Uganda. One of the narrators of All Our Names is a character a little like this. In fact this new novel by the Ethiopian-American writer Dinaw Mengestu, who won the Guardian first book award for Children.
For with All Our Names, he has grounded his search in a story so straightforward but at the same time so mysterious that you can't turn the pages fast enough, and when you're done, your first impulse is to go back to the beginning and start over like the best storytellers, [Mengestu] knows that endings don't have to be happy to be satisfying, that mysteries don't need to be explained, that discriminating between what can and can't be known is more than enough [a] beautiful novel. All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu is a poignant story of two men and a woman. The two men are friends who meet in what is probably Uganda, right before the wars began. The woman is the lover of one of the men who comes to the United States. Published in , All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu is a coming-of-age story set during an African revolution. The story follows two young men as they are drawn out from the safety of their university campus into the intensity of the streets outside. As the story progresses, the two young men are driven apart, as one becomes involved in the inner workings of the revolution while the other finds refuge in the American Midwest.
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