Books by José Eduardo Agualusa (12)
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A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa EN
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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... continue
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A Practical Guide to Levitation : Stories by Jose Eduardo Agualusa EN
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A luminous collection of dryly humorous stories that revel in the surreal and fantastic, from the pen of José Eduardo Agualusa, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award Perfect for readers of Haruki Murakami, Julio Cortázar, and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Vividly translated into English for the first time by long-time Agualusa collaborator Daniel Hahn, the jewel-like tales gathered in this collection are an exuberant celebration of story-telling in all its various forms. On the sands of Itamaracá, an old fisherman dreams of fish: shad in the morning, when the water’s smooth and s... continue
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El vendedor de pasados by José Eduardo Agualusa ES
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Félix Ventura es un personaje peculiar. Además de ser albino, ha escogido un extraño oficio: vendedor de pasados falsos. Después de años de guerra, sus clientes –prósperos empresarios, políticos, generales y la emergente burguesía angoleña– tienen un futuro prometedor. Así que sólo les falta un pasado presentable. Félix les fabrica una genealogía de lujo, memorias felices, e incluso les procura los inevitables retratos de ancestros ilustres. Una noche llega un misterioso extranjero solicitando sus servicios y, de pronto, el pasado irrumpe en el presente en una trama que es también una original... continue
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LA REINA GINGA by Jose Eduardo Agualusa ES
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Disputada por flamencos y portugueses, reserva de diamantes y esclavos que se vendían en Brasil, el actual territorio de Angola tuvo en el siglo XVII una reina inolvidable y singularísima: Ginga. Guerrera decidida, gobernante lúcida y astuta, reconstruyó su reino varias veces, comandó ejércitos, negoció y batalló con las grandes potencias y con otros reyes africanos, tuvo una ardiente y voraz vida privada y hasta el final de sus días fue dueña de su destino.
En esta novela extraordinaria, con una prosa brillante y luminos... continue
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La sociedad de los soñadores involuntarios by Jose Eduardo Agualusa ES
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El periodista angoleño Daniel Benchimol sueña con gente que no conoce. Moira Fernandes, una artista visual mozambiqueña radicada en Ciudad del Cabo, escenifica y fotografía sus propios sueños. Hélio de Castro, un neurocientífico brasileño, los filma. Hossi Kaley, hotelero, ex guerrillero, con un pasado oscuro y violento, tiene una relación aún más extraña y misteriosa con los sueños. Los sueños unen a estos cuatro personajes en un país dominado por un régimen totalitario al borde de ... continue
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My Father's Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
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"Celebrated Angolan musician Faustino Manso has just died, leaving seven wives and eighteen children scattered across southern Africa. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, arrives in Angola from her home in Portugal to trace the story of the father she never knew." "My Father's Wives is the story of Laurentina's journey, but this fiction also runs in parallel with Jose Eduardo Agualusa's story of the novel's genesis, as writer and characters travel the southern African coast, from Angola, through Namibia and South Africa, to Mozambique, meeting extraordinary people and discovering Faustino's sec... continue
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Teoría general del olvido by José Eduardo Agualusa ES
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Desde hace tiempo Ludovica Fernández Mano se niega a salir a la calle. Vive puertas adentro con su hermana. Pero su hermana se enamora y se casa, y entonces ambas se mudan con el nuevo marido. El departamento es maravilloso, repleto de libros, sólido, protector. Una noche la pareja sale a una fiesta. En la ciudad, en todo el país, Angola, la revolución y la independencia avanzan. Pasan las horas, pasan los días y la pareja no regresa. Ludovica quita la puerta y levanta una pared. Se encierra, sin pensar como será el mañana. Solo la acompa&ntild... continue
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The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
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This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity—he sells people different pasts. He can create entirely new pasts full of better memories and complete with new lineage or augment existing pasts as needed. Narrated by an exceptionally articulate and rather friendly lizard that lives on Felix’s living-room wall, this richly detailed story explores how people can remember things that never happened—and with extraordinary vividness—even as they forget things that did in fact occur.
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The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
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Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first guests arrive, the coast is hit by a cyclone. The island is spared, but the bridge to the mainland is left impassable, and telephone and internet connections are severed. The islanders - and the writers who have come for the festival - are cut off from the outside world. Left to their own devices, the authors forge new bonds and make the best of a situation that gets stranger each day. Some believe th... continue
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The Society of Reluctant Dreamers by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
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While swimming in the clear blue waters of the Rainbow Hotel, Daniel Benchimol finds a waterproof camera, floating seemingly lost in the sea. He goes on to discover that the camera belongs to Moira, a Mozambican artist famous for a series of photos depicting her own dreams. On seeing the images, Daniel realises that Moira is also the mysterious woman whom he has been dreaming about repeatedly. The two meet, and Daniel becomes involved in a unusual dream experiment with a Brazilian neuroscientist, who's working with Moira on a machine to film and photograph people's dreams. Meanwhile, Daniel's ... continue
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Théorie générale de l'oubli by José Eduardo Agualusa FR
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Luanda, 1975. À la veille de l’Indépendance, Ludovica, agoraphobe et terrorisée par l’évolution des événements, se retranche dans son appartement en construisant un mur qui en dissimule la porte et la met à l’abri du reste du monde. Ayant transformé sa terrasse en potager elle va vivre là presque trente ans, coupée de tout, avec son chien Fantôme et un cadavre. Ludo a vraiment existé et mené la vie que raconte le roman. En entrelaçant cette histoire avec les aventures tumultueuses des autres personnages, voisins ou entraperçus dans la rue, tous plus ou moins impliqués dans le marasme de la gue... continue