Newcomers to this (or probably any) country can see things about it and its people that long-timers often don't, and these things are useful for us to contemplate. When one's heart is always or often in a different place from one's body, life takes on a wistful tone. I even found echoes of themes I've encountered repeatedly in Irish-American literature of the divided nature of immigrant experience. Also, I had read Cutting for Stone a couple of months ago, and the two make nice bookends, so to speak, if you're interested in Ethiopia, which I am.Īnyway, BESIDES all of that, it is a great book! Mengestu does a lovely job pacing Sepha's story, and showing the reader the many angles of his, and his associates, lives.
has further relevance to me as someone who lives in the D.C. In light of President Trumps's recent outrageous comments about immigrants from certain parts of the world, it could not be more timely, and its focus on gentrification and tensions between different populations in Washington, D.C. Urn:isbn:1429529776 Scandate 20111028070426 Scanner Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears was published in 2007 and its events take place in the late 1980s, but it registered with me as something I wanted to read when the NEA chose it as a "Big Read" book a few months back. OL16069691W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.32 Pages 250 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1429529806 Urn:lcp:beautifulthingst00meng:epub:622bcf0a-d4e4-42af-87bb-8e96985484bc Extramarc University of North Carolina Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beautifulthingst00meng Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2g74d29t Isbn 9781594489402ġ594489408 Lccn 2006025058 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL17216288M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:35:57 Boxid IA140414 Boxid_2 CH108201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1.
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