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Dinaw Mengestu
Born
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
June 30, 1978
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Genre
Influences
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
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2007
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42 editions
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All Our Names
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published
2014
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35 editions
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How to Read the Air
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published
2010
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33 editions
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The Paper Revolution
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published
2014
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Children of the Revolution
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Unsere Namen
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The Beautiful Thing That Heaven Bears
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Tutti i nostri nomi
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Els nostres noms (EMPURIES NARRATIVA)
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Nens de la revolució
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“It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.”
― The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
― The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
“It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.”
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“There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.”
― Children of the Revolution
― Children of the Revolution
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