Author Dinaw Mengestu teaches at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and lives in New York City.
Awards: NBA (2007), LA Times (2007) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007)
aka Children of the Revolution
How to Read the Air (2010)
All Our Names (2014)
Someone Like Us (2024)
aka Children of the Revolution
How to Read the Air (2010)
All Our Names (2014)
Someone Like Us (2024)
Books containing stories by Dinaw Mengestu
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Dinaw Mengestu recommends

The Antidote (2025)
Karen Russell
"With The Antidote, Karen Russell proves once again that there is no limit to her extraordinary imagination. She creates marvels out of what we imagine to be the ordinary world, she turns the historical novel upside down and shakes from it a thing of exquisite beauty that is unlike anything you've ever read."

The Dimensions of a Cave (2023)
Greg Jackson
"Greg Jackson's Dimensions of a Cave is, sentence to sentence, a linguistic marvel, a genre-bending tale with moral and philosophical stakes as profound as they come."

The History of a Difficult Child (2023)
Mihret Sibhat
"Mihret Sibhat's beautifully rendered first novel, The History of A Difficult Child, is as rich and complicated as they come - a novel that delves fearlessly, with so much grace and compassion, into the most essential corners of our lives, the ones where family, politics, culture, and love are inextricably intertwined."
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