The Texture of Dreams
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Nyala Publishing
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780975440919
Subjects: Immigrant Fiction
Genres: Fiction
First sentence: I am looking at a photograph taken at Addis Ababa's Bole Airport right before my departure.
Description: This lush debut novel from Ethiopian writer, Fasil Yitbarek, takes us on a fascinating journey with Yosef, a newly arrived immigrant to New York City, as he struggles to make sense of two sharply contrasting cultures. It is a captivating account of Yosef's quest to find his place away from home  while carving a career as an English teacher.

By seamlessly interlacing the realities of the main character's adopted home with those of his birthplace, the author has consstructed a beautiful tapestry, alive with haunting images.

Yitbarek's style is elegant, rich with marvelous prose that brings the settings and events of the novel to life with striking immedicacy. The Texture of Dreams is a novel to gratify the soul and the senses.
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