Dinaw Mengestu - "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears"

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=784

Ethiopian-born author Dinaw Mengestu reads an excerpt from his novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."

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Dinaw Mengestu talks about "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, and immigrated to the US in 1980. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia Univesity's MFA program in fiction. A former intern at The New Yorker, he is the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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[donell21]

Can i buy this book in german??

[ForaTv]

Ich weiss nicht! Try contacting the book's publisher.

[enderasu]

what is the big deal about mengistu. Melese is more brutal than Colonel Mengistu.

[09876543210988765432]

why cant i see the video

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TALK TO ME 04

[YoniKera]

Dinaw nor nor ... I took your English class at the New York City College of technology at CUNY. Hope you still remember me. I didn't read your book yet but I will very soon... hope you put some of my essay lol great successes Dinaw .... will e-mail you.

[NewTigray]

I love this book, a story of a single man conveying the larger story of exile.

[alwiyak]

I like the book where I would get it

[edenaau]

I love the book men ...keep it up ...specially you know since i saw you as an ethiopian, i taught u will not use some slang languages in the book which in reality they use them in those neighbourhoods and u show the real thing in the book and u excell my expectaions showing what's really look like on their real life conversations and talks in those Washington DC neighbourhood....keep it up men !!!~

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[LetItFloat]

Excellent