# Children of the Revolution

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- Book: [Children of the Revolution](https://www.bookquiver.com/dinaw-mengestu/children-of-the-revolution) ([Children of the Revolution.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dinaw-mengestu/children-of-the-revolution.md))
- Authors: [Dinaw Mengestu](https://www.bookquiver.com/dinaw-mengestu)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9950-273-9
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2008-05-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D. C. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa. But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change...