- Published: 15 January 2012
- ISBN: 9780099521037
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $29.99
How to Read the Air
- Published: 15 January 2012
- ISBN: 9780099521037
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $29.99
A straight-forward, compassionate, keenly sensitive observer of real life
James Lasdun, Guardian
How To Read the Air is deeply thought out, deliberate in its craftsmanship and in many parts beautifully written...remarkably talented
Miguel Syjuco, The Scotsman
A story of exile and redemption, beautifully written
Kate Saunders, The Times
Challenging
Peter Carty, Independent
Mengestu's finely written novel, his second, tackles family, the break-up of a marriage and the reinvention of a past... Finely written novel
Sunday Times
It is a measure of the novel's ultimate success that the narrative has real drive, and also reminds us that fiction really does matter
Christopher Potter, Sunday Times, Culture
There's no denying its emotional heft
Sunday Business Post
[Mengestu has] pulled off a narrative sleight of hand, weaving two - or is it three? - beautiful fictions, while reminding us subtly that the most seductive may be the least true
Los Angeles Times