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Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay for passage to the United States.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Dinaw Mengestu, Dinaw Mengestu, Anne Wicke
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, ALBIN MICHEL, Riverhead Trade
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781429529808
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