The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

5 best books like The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Dinaw Mengestu): The Other Americans, Dust, Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood, Netherland, Slave to Fashion

The Other Americans
AuthorLaila Lalami
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one...
AuthorYvonne Adhiambo Owuor
ISBN0307961206
From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.

Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and...
AuthorNega Mezlekia
ISBN0312289146
Winner of the Governor General's Award
A Library Journal Best Book of 2001

Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil war, widespread famine, and mass...
Netherland
AuthorJoseph O'Neill
ISBN0307377040
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard...
Slave to Fashion
AuthorRebecca Campbell
ISBN0345478185
Fashion college has taught Katie Castle everything she ever needed to know: how to smoke cigarettes and drink; how to flirt with gay men and straight women; how to get into clubs without paying. Possessed of a sharp eye and a stiletto tongue, Katie talks her way into the job of her dreams. Working for chic...
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