- Published: 19 September 2019
- ISBN: 9781448163564
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Children of the Revolution
- Published: 19 September 2019
- ISBN: 9781448163564
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
A quietly accomplished debut novel... Despite, or perhaps because of, the attritions of his years in exile, Sepha has remained astonishingly tender. In the end, it is this human warmth that triumphs
Guardian
A quietly brilliant portrait of immigrant life... Children of the Revolution reads like an Ethopian variation on The Great Gatsby. Remarkably it's not diminished by this comparison
Financial Times
A rich and lyrical story of displacement and loneliness. I was profoundly moved by this tale of an Ethiopian immigrant's search for acceptance, peace, and identity... Mengestu makes us feel this tortured soul's longings, regrets, and in the end, his dreams of meaningful human connection
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
An impressive and moving debut
Spectator
Brilliant... a courageous and engaging novel
Daily Telegraph
Dinaw Mengestu belongs to that special group of American voices produced by global upheavals and intentional, if sometimes forced, migrations... The most interesting work in American literature has often been done by such writers
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Sharp and moving
The Times
The immigrant's plight is sensitively captured... But this is not a story of hopelessness - rather, it's the gritty determination and the dark wit...and perspicacity with which Sepha can view his adopted homeland that make this a rich, moving read
Siobhan Murphy, Metro
With faultless pitch and tone, this elegiac first novel packs great matters into its modest span
Independent