Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Srpski
Autor: Strani

Dinaw Mengestu - Lijepe stvari sto se nebom gnijezde

Vukovic&Rujnic, Zagreb, 2009.
Meki povez, 207 strana.
IZUZETNO RETKO IZDANJE!

U Etiopiji, pre petnaest godina, za vreme krvave revolucije, Sepha Stephanos beži iz zemlje pošto mu je otac na smrt prebijen od strane vojnika. Novi dom pronašao je u Vašingtonu, u jednoj siromašnoj četvrti koju nastanjuju Afroamerikanci. On drži prodavnicu u kojoj danju kupuju đaci, a noću alkoholičari i kurve. Ima samo dva prijatelja - konobara poreklom iz Konga i inženjera poreklom iz Kenije. Niko od njih nije mogao ni da nasluti kakav će im život postati i svi pate za domovinom.

Nakon dugog perioda siromaštva, njegova četvrt se polako menja. U kuću do njegove useljavaju se belkinja Džudit i njena ćerka meleskinja Naomi koje ujedno i renoviraju svoj novi dom. Sepha im postaje prijatelj i nakon mnogo godina opet oseća da ima porodicu. Međutim, njihov dolazak je glasnik promena - rasne predrasude prete miru, a Sepha će možda opet sve izgubiti...

Lepe stvari sto se nebom gnezde

Dinaw Mengestu (Amharic: ዲናው መንግስቱ; born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian American novelist and writer. In addition to four novels, he has written for Rolling Stone on the war in Darfur, and for Jane Magazine on the conflict in northern Uganda.[1] His writing has also appeared in Harper`s Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications.

He is the Program Director of Written Arts at Bard College.[2] In 2007 the National Book Foundation named him a `5 under 35` honoree. Since his first book was published in 2007, he has received numerous literary awards, and was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2012.[3]
Early life

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1978, during a period of political repression that became known as the Red Terror. His father, who was an executive with Ethiopian Airlines, applied for political asylum while on a business trip in Italy; Mengestu`s mother was pregnant with him at the time. Two years later, when Mengestu was a toddler, he, his mother and his sister were reunited with his father in the United States.[4] The family settled in Peoria, Illinois, where Mengestu`s father at first worked as a factory laborer, before rising to a management position.[4] Later the family moved to the Chicago area, where Mengestu graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois.[5]

Mengestu received his B.A. in English from Georgetown University, and his MFA in writing from Columbia University in 2005.[6]
Career

Mengestu`s début novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, was published in the United States in March 2007 by Riverhead Books. It was published in the United Kingdom as Children of the Revolution,[7] issued in May 2007 by Jonathan Cape. It tells the story of Sepha Stephanos, who fled the warfare of the Ethiopian Revolution 17 years before and immigrated to the United States. He owns and runs a failing grocery store in Logan Circle, then a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C. that was becoming gentrified. He and two fellow African immigrants, all of them single, deal with feelings of isolation and nostalgia for home. Stephanos becomes involved with a white woman and her young daughter, who move into a renovated house in the neighborhood.

Mengestu`s second novel, How to Read the Air, was published in October 2010.[8] Part of the novel was excerpted in the July 12, 2010, issue of The New Yorker, after Mengestu was selected as one of their `20 under 40` writers of 2010.[9] This novel was the winner of the 2011 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, a literary award established by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation in 2007.[10]

Mengestu`s first two novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages.[7]

In 2014, he was selected for the Hay Festival`s Africa39 project as one of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region.[11]
Awards and honors
Literary honors

New York Times Notable Book 2007

Literary awards
Year Book Award Category Result Ref
2007 The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle Roman Shortlisted
Guardian First Book Award — Won [12]
Prix du Premier Roman Étranger Won
Prix Femina étranger — Longlisted
2008 Dylan Thomas Prize — Shortlisted [13]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Won [14]
Young Lions Fiction Award — Shortlisted [15]
2011 How to Read the Air Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence — Won [16]
— Vilcek Prize Creative Promise in Literature Won [17]
Honors

The New Yorker `20 Under 40`, 2010[18]
Lannan Fiction Fellowship, 2007
National Book Award Foundation, 5 Under 35 Award, 2007
MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 2012

Bibliography

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Books

—— (2007). The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (1st ed.). New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781594489402.[19]
—— (2010). How to Read the Air. Penguin. ISBN 9781594487705.
—— (2014). All Our Names. Knopf. ISBN 9780385349987.
—— (2024). Someone Like Us (hardcover 1st ed.). Knopf. ISBN 9780385350006.

Essays
—— (Autumn 2009). `Big money`. Granta (108): 135–149.