BOOKS FROM ANGOLAA General Theory of Oblivion
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Set in Angola
Male author
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird’s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace.
Reviews:
(2 years ago) |
16 Sep, 2022
This is from Angola, not Brazil
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(2 years ago) |
16 Sep, 2022
Thank you for the feedback. We will check and update the listing.
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(1 year ago) |
10 Jan, 2023
@LiseGoettler Thank you for the reminder. The country has finally been corrected.
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(3 months ago) |
11 Sep, 2024
Would give it 4.5. Beautiful story about a woman, Ludo who never wants to leave the house and moves from Portugal to Angola to live with her newly wedded sister and her husband. The build up to Angolan Independence largely passes her by. When neither her sister or her brother-in-law do not return home on the eve of Angolan independence, she bricks herself into her apartment. She stays there for the next thirty years, living off vegetables and pigeons and writing her story on the walls of her home.
Meanwhile life in Angola moves on. A variety of characters take the spotlight and their stories touch Ludo’s.
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(3 months ago) |
22 Sep, 2024
Read July 3, 2024
4/5
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