En smakbit ur den bok jag läser nu

Isaac and I became friends the way two stray dogs find themselves linked by treading  the same path every day in search for food and companionship. ...I saw him on campus. We were trying our best to belong, standing near but never to close to a group of students....When I saw him, I knew he was at the university not because he was supposed to be, but because, like me, he felt that was where he belonged, among the bright, future generation.

Det här är en bok som kom till mig genom den bokprenumeration jag har hos The English Bookshop.

På bokhandlens sida kan man läsa följande om boken:

Dinaw Mengestu – All Our Names is our book of the month for February. An unforgettable tale of love, friendship and revolution set between Africa and America, by the winner of the Guardian First Book Award. Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt regime in the early 1970s. As the line blurs between idealism and violence, one of them flees for his life. In a quiet Midwestern town in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an African student falls for the woman who helps him settle in. Prejudice overshadows their relationship, yet it is equally haunted by the past. Both men are called Isaac. But are they one and the same?

En smakebit på søndag ur All our names av Dinaw Mengestu