Dinaw Mengestu Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past coloured by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home.

Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt regime in the early 1970s. As the line blurs between idealism and violence, one of them flees for his life. In a quiet Midwestern town in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an African student falls for the woman who helps him settle in. Prejudice overshadows their relationship, yet it is equally haunted by the past. Both men are called Isaac. But are they one and the same?

Mariam und Josef, äthiopische Einwanderer, machen Jahre nach ihrer Hochzeit eine Reise nach Nashville, Tennessee. Dreißig Jahre später begibt sich ihr Sohn Jonas auf denselben Weg, um seine Ehe zu retten und seine Wurzeln zu entdecken.

After his estranged Ethiopian immigrant father dies, Jonas hopes to answer questions about his heritage and culture. So he leaves his wife and home in New York and sets out across the trail his own parents took when they first arrived in America

Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Stepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C.