The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

by Dinaw Mengestu

Genres: Cultural Heritage; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Ethiopian EmigrE author Dinaw Mengestu is a skilled observer of people who earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly for this colorful debut. Insightful and swiftly paced, this novel evokes past and present in the course of its compelling narrative. It’s the ’70s, and one D.C. neighborhood is undergoing big changes. In the mix is Ethiopian grocery owner Sepha Stephanos—a man with a complex past who fled his homeland after seeing his father brutalized.

Release date: March 1, 2007

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Print pages: 240