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Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay for passage to the United States. Now he finds himself running a grocery store in a poor African-American... read more
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At eight o'clock Joseph and Kenneth come into the store.
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- Dinaw Mengestu (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 1594489408
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 1594489408
Page Count: 240
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- Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2007: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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