Ldp Litterature: Les Belles Choses Que Porte Le Ciel (Paperback)

from goddesspt2

Ethiopian immigrant, Sepha Stephanos, who fled his country 17 years ago, is the owner of a barely profitable store in a neighborhood of Washington, DC. The reader is also introduced to his friends, Kenneth from Kenya and Joseph from the Congo. Other main characters, are Judith, a white woman, and...

from thornton37814

This is the story of an Ethiopian who immigrated to Washington, D.C. The author shows Sepha's struggle to "find himself." The book's title came from a line from Dante's Inferno, which is quoted in the book. Sepha is one of those characters with whom most of us will not completely identify althoug...

from kirstiecat

I really think this is an important novel for people in America who may not understand race relations, African coup and genocides, and an immigrant's perspective. The novel really deals with a sense of humanity in terms of an African immigrant who escapes brutality to start over in America and hi...

from catarina1

When I was notified that I am to receive his second book thru Early Reviewers, I decided that I had better finish the first one. Had started it about a year ago but just got stuck. Its a story about an immigrant from Ethiopia who has been living in Wash, DC for 17 yrs, now has a small, not very p...

from denton

The book is about three friends, all African immigrants to the USA, one does well as an engineer, one becomes a waiter in DC, and the protagonist (Sepha), opens a deli in a run-down part of DC. They amuse themselves attaching African coup dates to generals and such when they get together to share...