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All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu
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LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015
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?
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Praise for All Our Names
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A story so straightforward but at the same time so mysterious that you can't turn the pages fast enough, and when you're done, your first impulse is to go back to the beginning and start over . . . The victories in this beautiful novel are hard fought and hard won, but won they are, and they are durable. - Malcolm Jones, New York Times Book ReviewDeeply moving . . . Mengestu is concerned here not only with the dislocations experienced by immigrants, but also with broader questions of identity: how individuals define themselves by their dreams, their choices, the place or places they call home. - Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesElegiac, moving . . . Weighted with sorrow and gravitas, another superb story by Mengestu, who is among the best novelists now at work in America. - KirkusMengestu's most impressive examination yet of the African diaspora . . . Worlds on a cusp, powerfully drawn: notable above all is Mengestu's desperately moving portrait of a compromised friendship. - Catherine Taylor, Sunday Telegraph
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