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Article: Ethiopian publisher is looking for simple, noble, human stories.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 7, 2006
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Byline: Patrick T. Reardon
Jul. 7--Yosef Temesgen likes doing the laundry. A recent arrival to New York City from Ethiopia, Yosef is the narrator of Fasil Yitbarek's novel "The Texture of Dreams." He is in the basement of his building, sitting before a washer -- a machine he had never used back in Addis Ababa -- watching his clothing dance through the soapy water. "There is something calming about it . . . ," he tells the reader. "Something I find soothing about gazing at the tortured whirl of a soggy bundle of dirty laundry tossing this way and that in the watertight belly of the white metal box." Yosef is a fictional character, but many of his ...
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