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From Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award, the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 Award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant comes a novel about exile, about the loneliness and fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. "Weighted with sorrow and gravitas, another superb story by Mengestu, who is among the best novelists now at work in America." - Kirkus ReviewsAll Our Names is the story of a young man who comes of age during an African revolution, drawn from the hushed halls of his university into the intensifying clamour of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, and the path of revolution leads to almost certain destruction, he leaves behind his country and friends for America. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into the routines of small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his free

Who reads All Our Names?

Author

Dinaw Mengestu, Dinaw Mengestu, Ernest Riera Arbussà

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385349994

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction

Rating

3.6 / 5 (3,183 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14