Primeros reseñadoresSaskia Maarleveld

An author of rare and shining talent, Dinaw Mengestu has received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant and New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Award. All Our Names follows a young African revolutionary who takes the guise of an exchange student and begins a new life in America—only to discover the inexorable shredding of his present by the demons of his past. Fiction “Mengestu portrays the intersection of cultures … with unsettling perception.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart—one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn.

David Massey is a rising author in YA fiction and his powerful debut Torn was longlisted for the prestigious Branford Boase Book Award. Elinor, a young British medic serving in Afghanistan, watches as an Afghani girl walks into a hail of bullets—and then disappears. Elinor enlists Ben, a Navy SEAL, to help find the girl, but she soon begins to wonder if Ben has something to hide. (Fantasy/Ages 13 and up) Afghanistan. In the heat and dust of war, young British army medic Elinor Nielson watches an Afghan girl walk into a hail of bullets. But when she runs to help, Ellie finds her gone. Who is she? And what’s happened to her? What Ellie discovers makes her question everything she believes in—even her feelings for the American lieutenant who takes her side.